May 11, 2006

am (as in vs. pm)

It's morning. I have that weird heat on my body from rushing around, grooming, as I inevitably must since my hair takes on a life of its own in the night, arranging itself in all types of weird peaks and spikes. I can't see outside so I don't know if the day is nice. I've blasted the praise music today, trying to get myself into some kind of serious-mindedness. These days, I wonder what God thinks of me. I wonder if He still likes me or if He's kind of fed up. Sure He loves me but I wonder if He digs me anymore. It makes me feel kind of sick in my stomach to think that He doesn't. It also makes me feel kind of helpless... a veritable Alice, tumbling downward, only able to observe with infantile expressions of delight or disgust the objects rushing past her. Sometimes that's how I feel: life is rushing past, moments are lost all too soon, opportunities are swallowed up in the unalterable waves of time... I will see this shore no more; this horizon will never discover itself to me again. That doesn't always make me despair: surely it alone is the reason that we feel the need to savor life. Carpe diem.

"What man has written man may read; But God fills every root and seed/With cryptic words too strangely set;For mortals to decipher yet." -Charles Dalmon

1 comment:

Chris and Joy said...

I guess what I wonder is, does he have to love me to be God? Or should the cross be enough? I long for him to woo me back... to try and show me how real he is and that church is good and people are redeemable... but he doesn't seem to care too much about convincing me, since my life continues to lend itself to re-establishing doubts & fears. Why is that?