Thy Dirty House

By Karen Barnes

Ledbetter Pissypants, a former pastor, could no longer hold his tounge about how his former parishnors, others whom he ministered to, and those he came across for other reasons. He shares in his now bitter words of what he thinks one should not do to clean their homes. 

Basically, the filth of which he has seen in uncleaned homes over more than 30 years of what he thought was service to God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karenbar
• Release date: Dec 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781386409885

Karen Barnes

Karen Barnes has been writing her entire life. It hasn't been until the past 20 years she has made her ventures onto the online world.  She has written short stories, business, and non-business pieces in different venues online. She is now venturing into short stories and other non-fiction pieces in short formasts like Draft2digital, Smashwords, and Amazon's KDP.

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Thy Dirty House

By Karen Barnes

Copyright © 2012

After years and years of living in filth myself, I could no longer could take the conditions of my home life. I should have been grateful for the roof over my head, the food my wife cooked daily, and the love of my children. All of that should have been more than enough for a man of the cloth, but it was not for me.

I had seen prisoners living in better conditions than myself on a daily basis. Even though these prisoners of the state penal code had put them in a position, they were living in better conditions than a free man; at least that is what I thought.

I had come to realize I was a prisoner of my own house; just not in the sense of being a shut in due to illness or fear. I was a prisoner of the life I had let go on inside the walls of my home.

While I had seen the same or even worse conditions of those in my congregation or those who had sought the advice of a pastor, the day to day living of these souls had found themselves imprisoned in a world I could not abide by any longer. This is when I made my escape and took notice of the world at large around me.

This filth and the love of stuff is what drove me to the foul attitude I have today. How you keep your house is not the only thing that has sent me into a darkness. I am not sure I will be able to escape like I had the other world and life I had once lived. For those I once loved