Status Updates From Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith...

of the eucharist:
“I come here to be reminded: you have sinned; you are forgiven; God is present; God is risen; Gos is with you. You have new life”

“I tell the loneliness to pull up a seat. I notice she does not look so very threatening after all – she has a touch of the dowager about her, actually... I ask her where she’s from, and she says over the mountain… I ask her what she has for me. She takes a letter opener from her bag and tells me she can kill me if she wants to.”

“in the middle of all our religious constructs… is an emptiness… However it is reached, the experience is the same: the breakdown of order, the breakdown of schemes and maps. There are no guiding lights in the darkness; there is no straightforward religious experience we can hold onto.”