<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 35px;"><font>God</font></span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font style="font-size: 35px;"><br></font></div><div><font style="font-size: 35px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By purest chance I was out in our street when the kindergarten</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bus mumbled past going slow and I looked up just as all seven</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kids on my side of the bus looked at me and I grinned and they</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lit up and all this crap about God being dead and where is God</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And who owns God and who hears God better than whom is the</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Most egregiously stupid crap imaginable because if you want to</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See God and have God see you and have this mutual perception</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Be completely untrammeled by blather and greed and comment,</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Go stand in the street as the kindergarten bus murmurs past. I’m</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Not kidding and this is not a metaphor. I am completely serious.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Everyone babbles about God but I saw God this morning just as</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The bus slowed down for the stop on Maple Street. God was six</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Girls and one boy with a bright green and purple stegosaurus hat.</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of course God would wear a brilliantly colored tall dinosaur hat!</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you were the Imagination that dreamed up everything that ever</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Was in this blistering perfect terrible world, wouldn’t you wear a</span><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hat celebrating some of the wildest most amazing developments?</span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; font-size: 35px;"><font> </font></span></span></div><div><font style="font-size: 35px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Brian Doyle</font></div></div></div></div></body></html>