If only my deep thoughts could match the rest of my life, then I think I'd live in a song.
A song that's slow, melodic, harmonious, bright, dreary, shiny, friendless, friendly, open, closed, raining, emotional, serious, twangy, illustrative.
I want you to be part of that song that is in my blood.
Part of the song in my "soul".
But every time I try to speak something deep, every time I speak my own thoughts, you smile as if I'm "almost there."
And that smile turns away me and more people than you could ever know.
You're lucky I keep coming back. You know that others don't.
Honestly, if I had to, I would choose to abandon my station in life and walk a song, 70 miles in one direction, then sit down and wait until someone came along and talked to me. That person would be my beginning.
Can God smile?
Can He laugh?
Can She cry?
Can She emote?
Can He think?
Can Jesus save?
Can the Spirit crack a joke?
Can God get horny?
Did Jesus the Man?
Can God experience vertigo?
Can Jesus fly?
Can I ask any more questions? Yes.
Do the answers to these matter?
Not pragmatically.
AKA practically.
AKA usefully.
Simplify.
Sorry if this makes no sense.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
This day
This day has given me a lot to think about.
Ever have those days which you could point to and say "that's when I started feeling this way about the world, and myself in that world?"
This will be one of those days.
Thank you to all those involved.
Which if you wanted to get really general etc., would be everyone and everything in the history of the Universe.
So... allow me to make the even better jump.
Thank you, Universe.
And because I'm currently of the idea that by "universe" i mean "that which is greater than--but can never be known how greater--the universe," and owing to the fact that this force or love or binding "spirit" that people have come to recognize has been called "God" before,
I can rightfully say, Thank you, God, for this day.
And because I don't want to make my gratitude seem to be for a singular day, which it isn't, I feel as though I can also rightfully say, Thank you God for my life. And because my life has been a creation (love the idea of evolution fitting in here), I can ultimately trace it back to the Universe again.
So, Thank you God for the gift of life, and the Universe of which that life is a part.
Amen.
Ever have those days which you could point to and say "that's when I started feeling this way about the world, and myself in that world?"
This will be one of those days.
Thank you to all those involved.
Which if you wanted to get really general etc., would be everyone and everything in the history of the Universe.
So... allow me to make the even better jump.
Thank you, Universe.
And because I'm currently of the idea that by "universe" i mean "that which is greater than--but can never be known how greater--the universe," and owing to the fact that this force or love or binding "spirit" that people have come to recognize has been called "God" before,
I can rightfully say, Thank you, God, for this day.
And because I don't want to make my gratitude seem to be for a singular day, which it isn't, I feel as though I can also rightfully say, Thank you God for my life. And because my life has been a creation (love the idea of evolution fitting in here), I can ultimately trace it back to the Universe again.
So, Thank you God for the gift of life, and the Universe of which that life is a part.
Amen.
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