Shipwrecked in Plain Sight: Life of a Choir Boy

By David Langford

About the Book
Shipwrecked in Plain Sight: Life of a Choir Boy is part courtroom drama, part autobiography, part spiritual awakening. What does it mean to be shipwrecked? According to David Langford, a shipwreck is an experience of tribulation, a storm at sea, a catastrophe in life that alters one’s goals and plans for the future. Anyone who has gone through a period of uncertainty and tumult will recognize a part of themselves in Langford’s struggle and see the wisdom in his words.

About the Author
David Langford is an author and former choir boy who has lived a fascinating life full of ups and downs. Through it all his faith in God has sustained him. He has learned through experience that in life God always gives an answer, though it is not always the answer we want or expect.

• Language: English
• Publisher: RoseDog Books
• Release date: Jul 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9798888128077

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Introduction

Accountability is the burden of a Priest. This book herwith the coirt of accountibility by a Priest and others who hold positions in the church, such as the Choir Boy.

The first book or chapter is a setting of the Court Room. In this demonstration it is an account and a defense of a forty (25–40) year life of a Choir Boy.

Religion is Introduced to a Choir Boy as child usually at an early age of under 10 years. The position is given or Jack A—igned under a varity of circumstances. Parents who also have positions in the church. This becomes a family weekly activity and dedication. In other circumstances it can be a single parent that encourages the child to join the choir so that they can keep an eye on the child and get help with keeping the child on a path of holiness. This example is more often than not a disable parent. When the parent is disable, wheelchair, blind or some other disablity that requires human support.,

The experience of a Choir Boy produces a varity of results. Some choir boys become priest others become a parent dedicated to the church and many fall away. Shipwrecked in Plain Sight – Life of a Choir Boy is about this individual and the disfuntion of Life in a 25 to 40 year time period.

What is shipwrecked? It is an experience of tribulation, a storm at sea, a catastrophe in life that alters ones goals and plans towards the future. It leaves the individual left to pick up the remaining material pieces (if any that can be retained) and rebuild or start again.

This position and state of shipwrecked can leave physalogical and phsyal damage to the person and all persons involedf. Effecting the acomplishments and dreams of this person(s). During the the shipwrecked there is a drift of time, there is sleep and dreams, there is hope and fear. Most of all this a call to God in prayer and in life God always gives an answer. The answer is not always what we want or expect in life, altering the course of life forever.

We began with an accounting. A dream always has an odd showing. Example, an event that you recognize with something odd the distracts the completion of the dream, like a person out place, or a item that demands the attention of the dream. This accountability is a dream, procutors do not address individual jurors in opening statement.

Enjoy the journey!

Story / Book 1

The Opening Statement

59 Years Later

The day was warm with a slight breeze. It was Thursday, May 6, 2004, 8:30 am. Doneye entered the United States Court as he has done many times before sat outside the courtroom and went over his opening statement. This was an unusual case one he had never experienced in all his years as an attorney. He had received this case from a woman he had met in Georgia. The client, he has never personally seen before he has only read the story of this client from the papers, he gave to the women to pass on to someone who could help.

Doneye looks at his watch and sees that it is 8:50 am. He stands, closes his eyes for a moment, takes a deep breath and enters the courtroom. The courtroom is large. Large in two ways, one it is big enough to hold more than one hundred seats as spectators. To his left is a platform rose from the floor about one foot and on this platform sits 12 chairs. These chairs were for the jurors.

He walks to his table on the left side of the room and places his bag on the floor he turns to the Prosecutor, Ms. Bossley, and says hello. Sitting in his chair he looks forward at the highest chair in the room and waits. It is the chair of the Supreme Judge.

9:45 am The Prosecutor finishes her opening argument. The Judge looks at Doneye and says, Do you have a Statement?

Doneye walks around the table where his client should be sitting but is not present. The client however listens to the trail through audio and video equipment that has been set up. The client’s doctors are on call 24 hours. Should there be any changes in the client’s condition for better or worse the Doctor will contact Doneye at once. (The Time and Date is December 31, 2002.)

Looking at the jury of 12 men and women Doneye begins his opening argument.

If a Child is chosen before he is born, is there a reason? If a child is born and life is conceived, is there a reason? The answer to those questions and the one that is to follow is the answer you seek. If He has seen the Tragedy and has been judged, can we change this answer?

Before answering, the questions please STOP and THINK you might not have the answers. You wonder about the information above, and you think you have a clue; however, you really do not understand. Please allow this argument to help you in your request, for you will find that your quest will bring you fuller life.

My client was born a man as you are, however, like you miscalculation stands before him, and he is guilty of that—(being Human and Man) so as a Jury of his peers he begs. He is a man who cannot speak at the current time, but he asks you to, please look, at what he tells you. It is important for you to understand that as a Jurist you must remember the questions. And, as you think of each question, may I now address you. Walking by each juror he looks and speaks.

To Juror 1. Mr. Jackson, this child came to your home and begged. He pleads

To Juror 2. General Powell, a man who is a grandfather that understands the rules of reason, He begs.

To Juror 3. Mr. Poitier, a Royal man whom he addresses as Sir, he stood on the corner of your road bowed and begged. (Oh yeah, Mr. Poitier, by the third tree on Benedict and Canon who killed that Rat??)

To Juror 4. Mr. Stone, a man of vision and justice, he begs.

To Juror 5. The Beautiful Lady, who is not afraid to look, please he begs.

To Juror 6. Ms. O’Conner, a mother who understands the Children, he reasons.

To Juror 7. Mr. Holmes, a compassionate man who understands the symptoms, he begs.

To Juror 8. Mr. Castro Hussein, he was born with you in mind, he begs.

To Juror 9. Mr. Hamilton, you, and he have shared the same land, he reasons.

To Juror 10. Mr. Little, you are as a father to him though he is not your child, he begs

To Juror 11. Mr. King, you too are a father and as Moses and other men of old he envisions man future, he pleads.

To Juror 12. Mr. Rehnquist, a man of Law who has known him from the time of his Conception, he reasons.

And to the audience, the Central Population of America, he implores, please listen.

LA Lives and Gentlemen, not long ago on October 19, 2001, the United States Government (received a letter from this man (Rhino) begging that you please hear this case, in return for your attention he has provided you with clues and advice on finding the man you now hold captive (Saddam Hussein). However, Lives and Gentlemen the story I am about to tell you is not the letter. The letter my friends is hidden. And the only other person that has seen it is He who has judged. Looking at Mr. Stone he said, For there was a great man of the Courts who sided with the truth that the Court is not the only agency of government that must be Assumed to have the ability to govern. It was once said of him, the perfect word spoken at the perfect moment.¹

Looking at Mr. Jackson while talking in the air he says, remember the time he sat near your home on a bench in a city far away. It was a pleasant area with shops and restaurants for all who would visit. While sitting on this bench (That sat in front of The Gallery 931 State Street, Santa Monica, CA), he wrote a message because he needs your help. Do you remember the bench? It was a bench made of fine wood with its ends and legs made of iron painted black. Near this bench was a water fountain that stood in front of a shoe store. A store that sold shoe by a company named BORN and in the insole was a trademark of a Crown. It reminded him of a King. The bench sat on State St., Santa Barbara, Ca.

He looked towards Mr. Powell and continues to speak. He did not play sports and game as many of you men have, but he knows the rules (of Chest) (we need to add a piece called the Prince or Rhino, Off the board). Like his grandfather who loves the game of baseball he enjoyed the game of chess. And, though he knew the rules of the game and how to move its pieces, he never beats his opponent. Why? Pausing for a moment Doneye addresses the beautiful lady and says, "You pretend not to care but you cannot stop looking for this lowly man. He is a pig in mud to you. Do not stop looking he begs you, please listen.

The JACK A— Sound was sitting at his desk in 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA., when the Donkey Sound stopped and spoke to the JACK A— Sound’s Secretary, Billie. He said, please, tell the JACK A— Sound that I am here and ask him if I can see him, it is urgent! The Secretary a short woman educated at Penn State with a Boston accent stopped typing on the computer and looking up at the Donkey Sound, said, He’s waiting for you sir, please go right in.

The Donkey Sound was a man who took his job very seriously. He knew that his job was to keep as much pressure off the JACK A— Sound as he possibly could. This, however, was