Square Watermelons and Red Cars
Square Watermelons and Red Cars
I can’t remember the last time I was this fired up after listening to a talk.
I met Hudson Byblow a year ago when he picked me up at the Saskatoon airport in Saskatchewan, Canada, to drive me to remote town where I was teaching a course for a few days. He told me a little bit about how his homosexual and transgender inclinations led him to, what was for him, the most unexpected place: the heart of the Catholic Church.
Recently Hudson sent me a link to a talk he gave that shared his story in more detail. Here’s the email I sent him in return:
I needed to tell you how deeply, deeply moved I am hearing your story. What an amazing work of grace that has unfolded in your life!!
I am not one to flatter: you have a very rare gift of communication…
- Your immediate respect for your audience and for the delicateness of the topic is entirely evident.
- You have a lightness with very heavy subject matter (this allows people to be at ease and enter in, when they might otherwise put up walls).
- Your humor is great and, again, very disarming (I was laughing out loud a couple times).
- Your analogies and imagery are excellent and very insightful! (the red car and the square watermelon analogies were superb!).
- Use of visuals — even though I couldn’t see them, I could tell they were put to great use.
- Your insights are keen, both into your own journey, and what is at stake in the wider culture.
I found myself shouting out loud at different points: “YES!!” and “YOU GO, HUDSON!!” and at another point a full-throated Braveheart “FREEEEDOOOM!”
Then I entered into deep prayer for the world, for you and your protection (the enemy does not want you to get this out there), and for how I might be of service in helping you.
In answer to that last question, I do not know, but I want to be. Please continue to keep me in the loop on what the Lord is putting on your heart. If I can be, I am at your service.
As you said, all glory is the Lord’s, but know this: he is shining his glory through YOU!!
Your brother,
Christopher
I share this with you to encourage you to listen to this talk. How desperately we are in need of clear, articulate voices that can speak with credibility into the life-destroying lies our culture is promoting today!
Hudson Byblow is one of those voices: click here to listen to his testimony.