Shaddow Cross

 I went out to serve as a missionary in Dine' Bikeyah beginning summer of 2008, and in January 2009, a group of people from the board I was then with (in addition to Shaddow Cross) , had a "talk" with me.   That basically entailed explaining to me why I, who had served in subculture ministry for 7 years, should abandon all trappings of my Gothness, and hopefully all subculture trappings. I sadly believed that to minister out where I was called, that had to be true, due to cultural taboos.  I was broken, but I did my best to hide myself looking more desert and steampunk than Goth.   For five years I lived like this, until my mother's death, and my Gothness came out in fullness.  Only to be put away partially again by the end of 2015.   But from 2015 through 2017, I was in-depth introduced to the subcultures on the reservations.  Metalheads, emos, a few goths, punks, skaters.  They were all there, just I hadn't seen them before....

"Death, the e'er present friend of all who are mortal. Ne'er know we when she shall come for us. Ne'er know we when she will come for our friends. So cover us now in the shround of sorrow. Till the mourning passes in the morrow." ~ Morria Giolla - 2005 Over the years there has been much written on this subject, mostly from the viewpoint of how to get over it and on with life. Yet, Death she never stops coming to visit us, when we least expect it. She never stops taking with her those we love. Why is it, if one grieves deeply in this present age, that they are looked at as morbid and not mentally sound? Let us now look at what Jesus tells us about mourning and death… Psalms 23:4   “Yea, though I walk through the  valley of the shadow of death , I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Ecclesiastes 3:4   “ A time to weep,  and a time to laugh;  a time to mourn,  and a time to dance;” Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 ...

Underground Wire:  Blue Rose Version 1: Issue 1                                                        Fall '05