Todd Spivak’s Story on Podcasting in the Houston Press

A new 100 Word Story by Laurence Simon

An interview with my friend Chris, a Gay Catholic, who explains how he is able to reconcile his spirituality with the Church’s stance on Homosexuality. My apologies for coughing all the way through the interview.

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Every Hour Here-The Innocence Mission

We ride our bikes

around the circle in the cemetery,

weaving.

I wave up to You on the Cross.

Am I to come upon You suddenly like this forever?

Happy, relieved that You are here

and I can see You, I can feel You?

You are like the ticket-half

I find inside the pocket of

my old leaf-raking coat.

There all the time, all the while,

forgotten.

I so often seem to leave You

in churches

and other islands.

And on my beads

where I can see You, I can feel You.

I take the ticket-half

and put it on the table, saying,

This is God

and He’s here through my comings

and my goings.

But I walk past the ticket-half,

I walk past the ticket-half.

I walk past the ticket-half

just as I’ve walked past the Cross on our wall.

Our self-importance grows so dazzling we don’t see

You.

But Gentle Jesus, aren’t You always,

aren’t You every hour here?