Sort of a Terrible Parable
I once knew a guy. He wore a cape. Most of my other friends liked him, even though the cape kind of put some people off. But we knew each other from the organization where he had some high and respectable position.
I would have wanted to be better friends with our caped friend, and I think the guys did, too. One of us even asked him what was up with the cape thing, because that’s the kind of question real friends can ask each other.
That’s when things got a little rocky. He told them that the cape was a sign of the organization’s calling on his life and then the conversation got less friendly and more stilted after that.
We fell out of touch because we started going to meetings somewhere else. I guess he still holds some kind of high and respectable position and still never takes that thing off.
But if you ask me, the guy was just weird and the cape was just something to blame it on.
