John looks out at the Moon-rising over the black Atlantic.
Both looked so innocent…and peaceful…as if..he
used to see them as symbols of
eternity….not destruction.
John’s cell lights up. The expected text from Patty.
Patty’s text
Yeah I got it. What do you call the painting Jesus
on a stick?
John text to Patty
Was thinking about how they called hurricane Sandy an act of
God .But when a disaster happens…we
sacrifice religion…hard to believe in anything.
Patty
Anyone ever tell you
you are an up person?
John
The stories…an eighty year old couple losing
everything…almost dying cause the water came up and washed them out of their
windows…8th grader dying cause her father wouldn’t leave…guy cuts
his finger off with a power saw just as the lights went off so he and his
daughters wrap his finger and look for the cut off part in the dark….so many
lives smashed…
Patty
It’s Saturday night.
John
But then there’s the second act of God. People coming to
help people. Jon Bon Jovi and Springsteen doing a benefit concert. People
bringing their Christmas trees to the beach to create new dunes. Other
strangers giving food and clothes or just showing up to clean the sand off
streets.
Sandy
Let’s follow my Swedish God.
John
What?
Sandy
Drinking. It’s Saturday night. Let’s go out drink and
pillage like Vikings…be with people.
John
My God.
Patty
No mine. Well Thor knew how to have fun. Dressed up like a
woman once. Did Jesus ever dress up like a woman?
John
No. And I like that about him.
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