The Kingdom of Heaven is like a great feast. That’s the way of it. The Kingdom of Heaven is a love feast where nobody’s a stranger. Like right here. There’s strangers everywhere else you can think of. There’s strangers was born twin brothers out of the same womb. There’s strangers was raised together in the same town and worked side by side all their life through. There’s strangers got married and been climbing in and out of the same four poster thirty-five, forty years, and they’re strangers still. And Jesus, it’s not like the most of the time he is a stranger too. But here in this place there’s no strangers, and Jesus, he isn’t a stranger either. The Kingdom of Heaven’s like this. - Leo Bebb, from the novel The Book of Bebb
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:05:21 +0000