March 7, 2013
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500 Vine Street
I’m not particularly in search of God Almighty.
I feel that being spiritual is more the quest for questions than it is a quest for answers.
If it is a scientific thing, a firm answer may be found.
If it is a spiritual thing, the answer may be no more than mist
and if we find it as fact, is it spiritual any longer?
The world is round and the planets do orbit the Sun
What if we found God living down the block at 500 Vine Street?
Would he still be an inspiration to us?
If we passed his house each day and he was sitting in his favorite chair on the porch admiring his creations
would we be so amazed?
Would you still pray to credit God for good fortune or for the courage to survive your hard times?
Or would you just go down to 500 Vine Street and sit on the porch with him for awhile
and thank him in person?
Soon wouldn’t you just be passing by and only giving him a tip of the hat or a shallow curtsy?
No, I am not searching for God or His answers any longer.
It is much more interesting and perhaps more spiritual to search for more questions of the Universe.
Why do bugs have 6 legs?
Why are wheels round?
Why is a thought just a thought?
Where is God?
I know, He’s at 500 Vine Street
If He were there, it wouldn’t be long before people would be asking,
Is he really at 500 Vine Street?
An answer takes so much explaining
A question can be so short no matter how complicated the answer.
And the Universe never runs out……. without questions, how empty the void would be.DSS
Comments (12)
I love this!
Would people still pray to credit God if we learned SHE lived at 500 Vine Street?
Yes, indeed, I think God does live at 500 Vine Street. Sounds exactly right to me. Yes, it does.
I am also so far beyond searching for answers – or even the questions at this point. I figure that it is what it is, and what it is is unknowable, in this point and time, in any measurable way. Seriously,can you really wrap your brain around eternity?
Mostly I just enjoy that certain creatures have six legs and round things roll and the Milky Way is breathtakingly beautiful - as is the tenor saxaphone or the birth of a child. With or without a god, existence is a miracle – and I am here and so are you and there is music and whoopie pies and orange cats and Blue Tick Hounds and Scottie campers and pepperoni pizza. I mean : W O W !
@TheSutraDude - The second I read this address it brought to mind these two elderly ladies who lived down the street from my family when I was 4. My mother, baby brother and I would walk by their house several times a week, and in the summer they were always sitting out on the porch and invited us to stop and have a cold lemonade and a butter cookie. Sometimes we did and it was, indeed, heavenly. Personally I suspect that they are god.
Sandra
@SandraErickson - Wonderful experience and story. They are.
@SandraErickson - @TheSutraDude - I had like experiences as Sandra’s as a youngster, I think god may have been my Aunts on Clark Street and no doubt , god’s gender could very well be SHE. But I’d just as soon not know. Thank you both for the Recs! And for the Mini Sandra!
@Iamsurrounded - Ha! We are each of us gods.
Nicely done. Are you taking the same creative writing course my son is?? He had to write a poem with the title the address of a place he’s lived.
@murisopsis - Hahaha! No. But at first in writing this I did use an old address of mine but my innate sense of privacy forced me to change it to a more ficticious one although the real one was much more rhythmical. I have read of a poet, whose name I don’t recall, that refused to read or very cautiously reads other’s poetry for fear of picking up ideas from them. He did very poorly in creative writing class. I’m a little like that and have a brain freeze when confronted with using suggested prompts or if someone asks me to write them a poem about such n such. Usually the title will have the only resemblance to the wanted prompt. Hahaha!
Somewhere in the past a long time ago the octopuses and the insects parted ways. Basically octopuses and insects could spare a leg and continue on their way while a four legged creature could be crippled and not continue well on their way.
If we go along the highway and byways of life we might run into gods and goddesses. Of course there are demons and devils that slow our journey through life. I would hope that you stop occassionally to enlighten yourself on the secrets of life.
@PPhilip - Nope, I can honestly say, in all the years of my life, I’ve never been enlightened. I’ve left that up to the ones that profess to be. Thanks for coming by Philip,.
@Iamsurrounded -
a mini sandra! ((laughing)) perfect. muah.
@SandraErickson - Hahaha! I think a comma was supposed to be in there someplace but I had a teacher that told me I would be better off in my writing if I didn’t use any commas.
But I like a Mini Sandra also!