:: Edgeliving: Master Jim and slave marsha ::

:: Thursday, August 28, 2003 ::

Looking for Help With Obedience?

i often say that i have found help and comfort from the writings of men and women who enter into religious service, in any number of faiths. Like them, i have vowed to obey and serve in a way that the society i live in does not understand or accept. Here is an example of the wisdom and help i have found -- if you are searching to understand what it means to obey as a slave, i hope it helps you, too.

"Even after all of her years in the cloister, Sister Elizabeth didn't have a subservient bone in her body. That didn't mean that she took her vow of obedience lightly. She had found that many religious hid behind the vow of obedience. It gave them an excuse to take the path of least resistance, to glide through their lives on automatic pilot, confident that someone else would make all of the important decisions for them. There was a saying in religious life: Keep the rule and the rule will keep you. Oh, how wonderful if it were that simple. It never was, of course. Sister Elizabeth understood that obedience was a multilayered virtue. True obedience required far more than simple submission to man-made (or woman-made) rules. You must be obedient to the rule -- the master rubric that defined the human calling to God. And that required a strength of will, and intellect."

From "The Calling: A Year in the Life of an Order of Nuns" by Catherine Whitney, p. 123

From time to time, i've seen websites that offer the "128 Basic Slave Rules," or someone who offers "slave training" in only 30 days. Anyone can learn the "rules" -- anyone can be "trained" to follow them. But to come to an understanding and acceptance of who you are and what you are meant to be in this life... and to learn to obey as a way of making that calling real for you and for the world around you...

That requires more. So much more.

--slave marsha

:: 4:48 PM [+] ::
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South Plains -- Live and Nationwide

Just a brief announcement that online registration for South Plains Leatherfest is now open. Don't know what South Plains is? Click on the link to the left, under "Recommended" or go to www.southplainsleatherfest.com.

Early registration is only $69 and rooms at the host hotel are only $59 a night for up to four people in a room. Master Jim and i will be speaking at the event, along with Laura Antoniou, Joseph Bean, Race Bannon, Vi Johnson, Lolita Wolf, Jack McGeorge, Jack Rinella, Brian Dawson, Master Steve Sampson and more.

You got questions? You can email me at marshaslave@hotmail.com

Now we return you to your regularly scheduled reading...

--slave marsha
(one of the owners of SPLF)

:: 11:39 AM [+] ::
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The Look of a Champion – The Heart of a Champion

In her recent blog post, “Running,” slave marsha says she wants to be a racehorse but that one could not imagine a human less like a racehorse than her. My interest in horse racing and thoroughbreds goes back a long time. And for many years, I have compared slaves to thoroughbred racehorses.

In the book “Seabiscuit,” that great champion horse is described as follows: “He had a sad little tail, barely long enough to brush his hocks. His stubby legs were a study in unsound construction, with squarish, asymmetrical ‘baseball glove’ knees that didn’t quite straighten out all the way, leaving him in a permanent semi-crouch.” Seabiscuit did not have the tall, sleek, well-muscled tapered lines that most owners and trainers look for when looking for champions. So if it wasn’t his appearance that made the horse into the champion he was, what was it? After Seabiscuit became a winner, one observer said that he was a horse whose quality was “mostly in his heart.” But the trainer, Tom Smith, who turned Seabiscuit into a champion recognized something intangible in the horse the first time he saw him. Seabiscuit was being led to the post along with a field of low-level horses at a minor track when something about him caught Smith’s eye. It wasn’t the horse’s looks. It wasn’t even the way the horse ran, although he won that day. Something in the horse’s eyes and the way he reacted to running and winning spoke to Smith. As the horse was being led away, Smith said, “I’ll see you again.”

There is no telling how many potential winning, if not champion, racehorses are written off because they do not “look” like a quality thoroughbred. They may toil under the hands of inept trainers at small, bullring tracks across the country, never to realize their potential, never to tap their championship hearts. The same is true of people who have slave hearts. Slaves come in all shapes, all sizes, all genders and sexual orientations. They are tall, they are short, they are well muscled – or not, they are young, they are old, they are men, they are women, they are transgendered people. The key is to be able to recognize what is inside, what these people carry in their heart and soul. Potential Owners must train themselves to look beyond the exterior of a person, to find out what is inside, to find out what motivates the person, to find out if the person has a slave heart. With that, we have the foundation to develop champions.

Is slave marsha a racehorse? Yes, and she is she is being developed to run for the roses and beyond.

In leather,
Master Jim

:: 11:25 AM [+] ::
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