Radically.

In a window somewhere, a girl’s watching traffic slowly disappear from the streets below. She pours herself a glass of scotch. The glass frosts. Then it clears. A bit of alcohol creeps up the side.

Across town, two lovers are having cheap chinese food. Neither of them notice the food, much. He’s teaching her to use chopsticks.

A husband is lighting a candle. Coltrane’s playing the background. Somewhere, his wife is parking the car, just getting home from work.

There’s a girl in Starbucks, dreaming about leaving - going to England. She’s drinking tea, trying different flavours. Her sketch book is almost full.

Above, overhead, the sky’s blushing around the corners, clouds flecked in a brilliant death march. Someone’s taking pictures.

None of these are missionaries, but they share God with eachother. One’s a Pentacostal. The husband and wife attend a traditional gathering. They sing hymns. Another’s a baptist. Yet another goes to a megachurch nearby.

There are questions in these scenes, of course. But there are answers, as well. They are radicals, these men and woman. Not missionaries. Not evangelists. Also, not wasting a moment. They write, they enjoy, they love, they live. There isn’t a question about that in a mind of anyone who knows them.

There’s a simple faith in that, a viral faith, spreading in their footsteps. They are happy - in that, not at all normal. They are vanguard teenagers, brilliant musicians, wild lovers, avid travellers.

They are a sweet smell, aren’t they?

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Posted April 27th, 2005 in main.

9 comments:

  1. waiting:

    that’s me! that’s me! (although my sketchbook is pretty new… mmmmm, fresh pages…)
    ~lori

    April 27th, 2005 at 6:09 pm
  2. Scatterfingers:

    Oddly, that does resemble you, doesn’t it… I really didn’t have anyone in mind when I wrote it though :)

    April 28th, 2005 at 12:49 am
  3. shan:

    That is odd how it resembled so many people last night though….

    ;)

    shan

    April 28th, 2005 at 2:22 am
  4. Trevor:

    Good thoughts.

    I’ve seen and felt similar things before - not least on the streets of Savannah a month ago.

    Living and breathing Humanity is breathtaking.

    April 28th, 2005 at 4:00 am
  5. Laurs:

    I love thinking what others are doing and thinkin about. Sorta like Amelie :)

    April 28th, 2005 at 4:13 am
  6. Scatterfingers:

    Trevor, your blog totally makes me want to go to Savannah - so I can add that to the great list of places I’ve never been but want to go.

    April 28th, 2005 at 4:19 am
  7. shan:

    laurs!! I just watched Ameile last night!!! Never watched anything like it before :P

    Where’s Savannah? *looks stupidly innocent*

    shan.

    ps. I was out near your house this afternoon… I was stalking you… jk.

    April 28th, 2005 at 9:49 am
  8. Laurs:

    SOOO good eh? Ahah it’s frikken awesum :)

    April 28th, 2005 at 11:37 am
  9. Anonymous:

    Wow, that’s an amazing piece of work Dan.
    I don’t have the gift of writing!
    I think I know someone who does though..hehe!!
    ~Janna~
    P.S. Ohh I wrote my first song the other day though…well see how that goes:)

    April 30th, 2005 at 2:07 am

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