Between Exhalation and Exultation

I don't need much of a reason to focus on myself and my own inner world. 

Being the self-absorbed bastard that I am (the apple doesn't fall far (enough) from the tree), I have watched current events over the last week to ten days unfold refracted, reflected and ultimately refined through so much of the planned and unplanned activities within my own life. 

Raised as a loyal son of Holy Mother Church, I've drifted and dawdled for decades as the stream of my life has taken me where I've convinced myself I've wanted to go, not that I've not sometimes thought about Big Things from when I was a kid and how all of that has now become all of this. 

Every organized religion and a couple of the somewhat disorganized ones have sacred writings, scriptures if you will. No matter the region, or the religion, it's part of our human genome, the need to be a part of something bigger. 

Be it the Koran, the Old Testament, the New Testament, or a roman a clef by Danielle Steel, there's a narrative-a place to go look for details. When you argue a matter of theology and someone says, 'you can look it up!' the texts are what they're referring to.

There's the blood of the Lamb, the descent of the dove, the tongues of fire, the burning bush and an almost unending number of symbols and signs that The Lord (however you perceive S/He to be) uses to get our attention and pass along the Word. 

What if we were the first generation of inhabitants on this planet who had a Deity? I don't pretend to know what all of those before us had, I'm just saying we're the first and Our God uses the tools we have today in much the way as in the days of old we've read about. 

Somewhere I read of how someone speculated on how that God would communicate the Ten Commandments, if, like so many of us, S/He had to use text messages. 

Perhaps:
1. no1 b4 me. srsly.
2. dnt wrshp pix/idols
3. no omg's
4. no wrk on w/end (sat 4 now; sun l8r)
5. pos ok - ur m&d r cool
6. dnt kill ppl
7. :-X only w/ m8
8. dnt steal
9. dnt lie re: bf
10. dnt ogle ur bf's m8. or ox. or dnkey. myob.

M, pls rite on tabs & giv 2 ppl. ttyl, JHWH. ps. wwjd?

What would you ask if you had just one question?
-bill kenny