Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock

Joined June 2021

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Retired Ordained Elder in The United Methodist Church having served for a total of 30 years in Missouri, South Dakota & Kansas.

Born in Watertown, SD on 9/26/1959. Married to Sandra Jellison-Knock on 1/24/1986. One son, Keenan, deceased.

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One Handsome Devil Redux. Top Story - May 2025.
Let me tell ya, he’s one handsome devil. That’s not just a figure of speech. He’s shown me his bona fides. And they were definitely bona, if you know what I mean.
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Fiction
To Whom This May Concern. Honorable Mention in I Resign From… Challenge.
To whom this may concern: Please consider this my formal tender of resignation. For as of this moment, I resign from being resigned to anything we might expect of me. I’m done. Finished. Kaput. Outta here.
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Journal
Stand Proud
Identity? I’m white. Male. Cisgendered. A couple of young women once threatened (offered?) to rape me. I don’t think it’s the same thing. Certainly not the same impact.
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Pride
This Canvas of My Skin
To see the pieces of my soul laid bare on the canvas of my skin is one thing. To touch & help reassemble them is another. Such is to enter into the hallowed depths of my anguish, passion, hope & joy.
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Poets
Hope of a Rechabite
As Jehu asked of Jehonadab, son of Rechab, in the days of the prophet Elisha, so I ask you & extend the invitation: “If your heart is as mine, take my hand.”
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Poets
Psalm 23
I have all that I need & more, a place to rest my head, drink to slake my thirst, food for both body & soul. ~ Who cares about the haters?
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Poets
Ever-Whelmed
I wear your words upon my skin, whether for good or ill. What would you have writ large for all the world to see? ~
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Poets
In all Things
Look not upon my arms or back but within my eyes & across my face, through my touch & tender embrace, by my deeds
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Poets
Burn after Reading
Surrendering the advantages of birthright, all too often to those more deserving but who would otherwise have been denied.
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Poets
the Knowlege of
the fruit was sweet, juicy, delicious, nutritious, healthy. ~ why was it forbidden? ~ because they forbade it,
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Poets
How Am I?
How am I? Do you really want to know? I’m surviving periodically, now & then maybe, odd Tuesdays & Thursdays. This is a Friday so, it’s up for grabs.
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Poets
Searching Out the Garden
It’s been a good day. A remarkable day. Momentous even. And I have no idea why. I’ve never seen him like this. It’s as though the entire weight of the world has just been lifted from his shoulders.
By Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock11 months ago in Futurism