Have you read much by CS Lewis? Screwtape Letters perhaps?

No, I have not. One of my all time favorite books is On the Road by Jack Kerouac. It's one of those books I just love to read. I read it again just last May. It really has nothing to do with what we're talking about except to me maybe. How you could read that book and not be glad to be alive is beyond me. There's just so much there and in a mysterious way the connection between us all seems to run through the words on the page like an electrical current. So I guess - and this is where I'm going to become very elliptical - if you have not read and understood On the Road you'll never understand the bible...ha...and the funny part is one has nothing to do with the other...unless you can feel that connectivity and yet at the same time feel alone...but it's just a feeling and what is that? A holy, foolish, giddy feeling...and then you are saved or you find your King, or the crystal lighting bolt strikes...makes no sense right?

Green is right about me, Pat...I'm lost and without a King but I'm a friendly hand and an open heart in a sea of bitterness, revenge, avarice and filth...and with that I can sleep at night unafraid for my soul and so I've left a little more open coastline for another to occupy in the City of Gold...a place I never wanted to live anyway because like Ed...dear sweet wonderful Ed...I've seen Treasure of the Sierra Madre too.

Judge not though...right? So I do not judge, and I'm happy for all who have found their King for they are the wheat that shall be taken into the barn and I will forever sleep in the fields.