God, We Need to Talk

A break-up/make-up story

(Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash)

For a long time, God and I got along just fine.

I stopped by and visited on the holidays. I sent up the occasional good word. I made the occasional ask.

God would then do what God did. He granted the occasional favor. He occasionally wiped a loved one out of earthly existence. (I assumed what immediately followed was a Heaven mansion…