PeaceBang

The Pageless Book

Cripes, I don’t know how I’ve missed John Pageless’ blog for this long, but I’m sorry to have just discovered it tonight. Check it out, ya’ll. If you don’t hear from me for awhile it’s because I’m currently thinking boring, peaceful thoughts and catching up on John’s entries.

No, but seriously about thinking “boring thoughts:” I am sick about Kenya, beautiful Kenya where “these things don’t happen.” As I am trying to embrace a spiritual practice of not thinking aggressive and agitating thoughts that lead nowhere but to unproductive tension, I let my body express anguish for me. I’ve never in my life prayed on my knees of my own volition (I mean, I’m sure I scrunched down a few times as a visitor to an Episcopal or Orthodox service). Now I understand the value. All the distraught thoughts in the world can’t bring back those horribly tormented, burnt and machete-hacked, desecrated dead. But me praying on my knees for God’s realm to be made manifest among us can at least put my spirit in the right condition of receptivity for life as it is, and make my heart full of hope for life as it could be.

Lord have mercy on us.