Uncanny circumstances continually land me in Church. As I did my morning stretches, a few flakes of snow began to fall from the sky. On my way to the Gym, it became a full-blown snowstorm. Cars were lined up in the parking-lot of the church and I'd suddenly realized that I'd left my gym-pass clipped to my keys which were hanging cheerily off my apartment's mail-slot where I had hung them so that they didn't fall out of my pocket while I stretched. Cold, unable to enter the Gym, and in time for service, I entered the Chapel I had donated a few mornings and my unmailed Scones to. I often go there as it's small enough to allow me to ask for the minds of spiritual and surprisingly unbiased people to be lent to my own so that I may weigh concepts with them.
Furthermore, the intensive discussion on Pol-Pot and Bosniak Genocide really convinces me that the Chapel is not brimming with idiocy or sheep, which reaffirms that I am in the company of sound minds.
Anyways - I sat down in my snow-covered shorts with headphones around my neck in this sparse room of people in their Sunday finery and I listened to a reading from Revelations regarding the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I wanted to discuss my Military Service, but I think I might have to do that tomorrow, on my way to deliver the postcards and letters I've just put together. Instead, after service, a tall, thin man in glasses approached me and I wound up talking about love crossing faiths.
He agreed with me.
It made me exceptionally happy.
I never fail to leave bolstered and intellectually stimulated, which is surprising to me.
I suppose I've never found that in a Chapel's community, as I've only been to large communities.
Crowds always seem to dilute knowledge and interpretation as crowds have a mentality of their own.
...Before I begin seeming the zealot though, I will just reaffirm that I will do my best to do right by others, and tell you that I am leaving to play in the snow, which has quickly become sleet, my favorite kind of weather short of rain.
Cold. Sticky. It's like refrigerated rice from the clouds.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
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