A kid in front of me was curious why there were sharks. He asked god for the answer, and waited to “see if an answer came.” He closed his eyes in a silent prayer, waited, and said “no answer came.” He had the most serene look I’ve ever seen on a fifth grader’s face.
“I bet dinosaurs would eat people in heaven. That’s why they’re probably down there. I bet they have dinosaurs down there.”
I could tell a shift in my thinking occurred – before, I would tell the kid why he was wrong about the whole dinosaur thing, or that I could tell him why there were sharks and that he didn’t have to pray. But when he was presumably asking for the answer, I saw a calmness spread across his face.
There’s nothing I could say that could justify taking that inner calmness away.
Categories: Religion · Spirituality · Unitarian Universalism · Work
So I was sitting in the lobby of Hobby airport in Houston, a pretty darn small airport for someone used to Atlanta, a couple of weeks ago. My flight was delayed an hour at the time of this writing.
There was a flight before mine that’s been delayed all day long, for the past 12 hours. There was a technical problem, and the part needed to fix it is on my flight. There’s a high school chorus of 45 kids going up to new york on that flight. After articipating in many vrious boredom busters, they started to sing/practice for their concerts in new york.
I tuned out the CNN playing in the background and fosuces on the music. The beautiful choral music produced by a group of 45 high schoolers who have been waiting in the hobby airport for the past 12 horus for their flight.
There choral music had a spirit behind me. And whatever spirit they have after waiting 12 hours in a boring airport is more spirit than I have in my whole body.
And for those wondering where I’ve been – I’m out of town every other week for business now, flying to Dallas and Houston and Charlotte sometimes, and maybe Seattle soon as well. Life’s just too busy to keep up with this on a regular basis, although I do have a couple of other posts hanging around my computer I’ll put up.
Categories: Spirituality · Work
