I ran into God in the snack aisle at Costco
where He was debating whether to buy shrimp chips or chocolate donut bites and I said, shouldn’t you be out saving the world, but He just coughed, then reached for the donuts while all around me shoppers pretended that drones weren’t exploding elsewhere, vaporizing villages, crop dusting buildings, flattening hospitals, ripping children sideways, their mothers wailing, clutching siblings who lived, and God said look, there’s a sparrow on the pretzels and sure enough, the bird tilted its head and God smiled and said, I made that, and I saw the sparrow’s pin black eyes stutter before flying toward frozen foods.
Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk
I really like the sparrow analogy. In the bible, specifically Matthew 10:31, He states that we are worth way more than a flock of sparrows. During those times, they were sold a penny a piece, sometimes cheaper in certain areas. This shows that if God cares so much about such an “undesirable” bird so much, he cares about us way beyond human comprehension.
The lack of reaction from the other shoppers also shows the world’s reaction to not just God, but real problems we face. It really encapsulates how oblivious we are as a species, and how selfish human nature really is. We’d rather turn a blind eye than actually face the consequences of our actions, and it really sickens me. This shows the raw truth of humanity.
Kudos Author <3
I first read this piece more than a week ago, and it stayed with me enough to bring me back to this page again and again. Not my concept of God, but if there is a God, this is what I would expect.
“God smiled and said, I made that…”
Perfect.
There’s a lot more than meets the eye packed into your piece, leaving readers with questions to contemplate, such as why is an omnipotent being so non-interventional, more concerned with taking credit for creations like the sparrow? There seems to be a huge disconnect.
Great piece!
lots of kudos, this captures the insanity of dissonance I wade through daily