January 21st, 2014

 Isn't that the point of unconditional things? Brett asks. Eventually we
are all burned by the spirit he says. So let me understand something
about religion because this is a thing I'm unclear about. Me as a person -
how bout you not as a person says Kelly, laughing - living a good
life, having a moral center and living as if I do, presume I die tomorrow,
what happens to me then? These are hard questions to answer, the ones
Brett asks sitting in the same booth in the cafe that I have been sitting
in for the last three days. But I think in the asking is the center of the
answer. I wiggle in the booth nervously, having had too much coffee
and my stomach growing sour.  Later I would drink too much and say
words I didn't mean that burned as they left my mouth. The law of the 
Lord is perfect, restoring the soul. Day to day pours forth speech and
night to night reveals knowledge. I want always to be a soft word in Your
language and an open eye to Your beauty. Here are my lips. I wait for coal.