Let Me Bless the Borrowed Ride
The Great Litany
C Train To the Temple
If God answered my recent complaint as he had that of Jeremiah
What are you looking for?Lenten Devotional for 2019
What are you looking for?
What?
My childhood preacher used the King James in his sermons
and back then it was What seek ye?
Now I am dealing with What are you looking for?
I miss the room to slip and slide, to pretend the dusty Word has no real purchase here–
What seek ye?
–Ye Olde Sandal Shoppe
Where dwellest thou?
–A lovely suburb, but oh the taxes!
I go on for days like this, amusing myself into all sorts of trouble.
What are you looking for?
I find the whole exchange nearly unremarkable...
Some of John’s friends see a man and follow / they visit the guy’s flat / they talk for hours / another guy brings his brother / The man they followed gives them nicknames / someone makes sure we get the whole Rock thing
...except they run into the Savior on a side street, a man they sought so long they now turn mid-stride and leave all they know. He gives them names we speak today, dozens and scads and millions of us as we whisper the Word.
And then I hear it. I actually look up from my phone.
I hear a not unkind voice roughened from talking all day, riding on air stirred by Aramaic and my child’s running by, and I hear it plain as day:
My child, I asked you a question.