God Got Cable
And for a week
watched nothing but.
Didn't see the comet.
Didn't see the hurricane.
Missed that baby
being born entirely.
Just watched cable.
Funny thing is,
He like it.
He knew He wasn't supposed to.
All those girls
crying about their
boyfriends.
All those track meets.
All that
soap and toothpaste.
He liked it.
Couldn't help it.
Then Gabriel came
over with a deck of cards
and next thing you know,
they've played poker four weeks straight.
Gabriel's beard nearly
as long as God's
and corn chips all over the place.
And what God decided was that
he like not cable,
not poker,
but a break.
Every now and then,
even God needs a break.
Cynthia Rylant, God Went to Beauty School, Harper Tempest, 2003.
I love this book by prolific Newbery Award-winning author/poem Cynthia Rylant. God goes to the movies, the doctor, takes a bath and gets a dog. The poems are humorous, but also reflective and profoundly spiritual. There are not many books like this for young readers; I'm grateful for this one. Its reflective mood puts me in mind of Joan Osborne's song, "What if God Were One of Us?"
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