"Prayer Two"
Eternal One:
One supposes some of the folks never will get over being nervous about you. After all, if they say you are not, yet keep messing with religion, they may have to change, and who wants to do that?
Or if they merely pretend that you are, as so many others are doing, not knowing what’s deep or spiritual but figuring there’s no harm in a little play-acting and religious poetry, they might either begin to feel guilty or come to like the posturing. Either way, isn’t that hypocritical?
Even those who have the craving for something spiritual wish some kind of sign might be vouchsafed for them.
No wonder—or maybe it is the wonder—that you continue to make people nervous. Some shut it all off so as not to be disappointed, while others reach out their hearts eternally for that which they fear, really, is not there.
Wouldn’t it be nice—no, not nice but powerful, good and soul-taking—if we could allow this one clutch of intimacy to turn us around?
Probably it is going to take people to do that, authentic people we can see and touch and talk to and care about and, most of all, trust.
But who says, as far as human folk are concerned, that you ever worked differently than through people? It is a matter or quality, of something very special among people, that opens this way into awareness.
A few say that nature “comes at them” in a similar way, on occasion.
Then what we call worship and prayer are celebrations of a presence, a being come upon, got to, turned around. Think about that and let us know.
No, checking our experience, we know better than to wait for your call. We have all but forgotten the sound of that silence.
Leave it then that we will call you back.
Okay?
