Best Gift Ever.

Dear Friend.

How is heaven? I've heard the sunsets are amazing. I miss you sometimes. Tonight more than ever. I've been thinking a lot about something you lately. I've also been thinking about something you used to say with great regularity. "When God gives a gift, he wraps it human flesh" I've shared this repeatedly with two of my young friends. Yeah. I know. It gives them the giggles. Sometimes I feel like if there was a store specifically for men at the mall, it would be called Forever 12. And more malls would still be open.

I'm amending your beautiful sentiment, and rephrasing your powerful spiritual truth. As long as it's all right with you. I was going to go with "When God gives His best gifts, they're covered in human wrapping paper. But I can look ahead in the not too long from now and know that one of them-- I'm going with Fast12-- will add "with a nice Chianti and some fava beans." So I'm going next level. God's best gifts are wrapped in human parchment." Yeah. I know. It sounds incredibly lofty. But to be fair, so is the Incarnation. And the incarnation that takes place in us as we serve as The Incarnation in the lives of others, and receive The Incarnation from those around us. I'm not sure if many of my friends who walk with Jesus understand that I crave them because I long to experience Jesus in them and with them and through them. I'll tell them. But I can't control whether they believe me. It's all about the journey, right?

By the way. did you know your brother and Arlo Guthrie sound EXACTLY alike? I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

Same me a seat. I can't wait for a hug.

thus spake,

me