I met Alcie, Kyle, and KK after I got off work in the children’s department at Barnes and Noble. It was eight o’clock and I had a gift certificate for Johnny Carino’s so we ate there. It was good! Then back to Deb’s to take care of her dogs and sleep well before attacking 4th St. tomorrow. I found this poem and it seemed appropriate to my life right now. As I’ve said before, I love Writer’s Almanac.<\/p>\n
\n Poem: “Games with God,” by Virginia Hamilton Adair, from Beliefs and
\n Blasphemies. \u00c2\u00a9 Random House. Reprinted with permission.<\/p>\n
\n Games with God<\/p>\n
\n I played, a child both wild and meek,<\/p>\n
\n with God at games of hide-and-seek.<\/p>\n
\n I searched in vain the usual places<\/p>\n
\n and found a thousand saddened faces.<\/p>\n
\n “Your God is hidden in heaven,” they said;<\/p>\n
\n “You’ll see him only when you’re dead.”<\/p>\n
\n How could I make them understand<\/p>\n
\n God often took me by the hand?<\/p>\n
\n Then as my tears began to fall<\/p>\n
\n I felt his touch and heard his call,<\/p>\n
\n “I never hid from you at all.”<\/p>\n
\n I played with God a game of tag,<\/p>\n
\n his mantle flying like a flag.<\/p>\n
\n I gave my God a good head start<\/p>\n
\n but caught him running in my heart.<\/p>\n
\n I played with God the game “I Spy,”<\/p>\n
\n but lost him with my fading eye,<\/p>\n
\n till playmate God in his pure kindness,<\/p>\n
\n printed his image on my blindness.<\/p>\n
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