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"Lord, we do not know You as we should" - Mohammed

When


The awkward moment when:

  • ... I realized I had no dignity or self-respect - and had never missed them.
  • ... You realize you are in a trance and nothing matters.
  • ... I laugh for 30 seconds before the concept makes it from the right side of my brain to the left and I can finally tell you what I am laughing at. Sometimes I have no idea myself, until that happens.
  • ... You realize you were there in Job 38:7, and no one else you know remembers it.
  • ... I say out loud on the freeway, "I am driving on a river of light."
  • ... You realize that your friend who just had sex with you now expects the two of you to be exclusive, and it had never occurred to you.
  • ... Driving on the freeway as a man jogs by on the overpass ahead, and you think, "he has a life, too", and nearly lose control of the car.
  • ... Driving on the freeway, the thought "God is One" crashes in to my awareness with such horrific force that I burst in to tears and can't collect myself for hours.
  • ... I sit at my desk at work with my face in my hands, crying, because my marriage is going through convulsions.
  • ... I sit at the stop light with my eyes closed, weaving to the music pulsing from the stereo and I know people are watching me, and I don't care.

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