Making God
“Where men can’t live gods fare no better.”
-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
We build our gods brick by brick from our beauty and our kindness, fill them with what love we have to offer, with what hope we have to spare. We raise them tall above ourselves, looking for the light that can reflect from the gleam in their eyes, which we gave them to see us, to remind us, lest we forget in the day-to-day fighting of wars, baking of bread, and raising of children whether we ourselves are made of something good.
October 8, 2009