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God’s Tea Party
Posted by Jessica Maxwell, October 17th, 2009
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Filed under: Original Essays.
My Catholic friend tilted her teacup like a fortune-teller. "You know," she said, "I think people who don't have God in their lives are like people who have sex but have never had an orgasm and say: 'Oh, but I don't miss it!'"
Spewing is not a traditional tea-party event, yet I managed to baptize the scones with a mighty spritz of superior-grade tippy golden flowery Darjeeling. I shouldn't have been so shocked. After all, we'd been talking about God, and when you go there these days, anything can happen.
God talk is one of the fun side effects of having been flung out of the cozy nest of Victorian adventure writing and onto the rough terrain of the spiritual path. And it was all God's fault! Without warning, He/She/It grabbed me by the ear, marched me into the divine principal's office, and told me to stop goofing off and start paying attention. The wild ride that ensued is celebrated in my new book, Roll Around Heaven. It's an all-true, unbidden spiritual adventure that opens with the sudden appearance of ...
