Under The Udala Trees

You are my wife, for God’s sake. I can do things to make your life miserable. Do you hear me? You are my wife. Whatever you do, don’t provoke me, or I will see to it that you pay the price.”

The Church is the oldest and most successful business known to man, because it knows not only how to recruit customers but also how to control them with things like doctrines and words like ‘abomination.’

It’s the Church that has interpreted God’s words to its own benefit. Because the Church wants as many members as possible, as many followers as possible.”

This must be married life: to sit in church with so much unrest, but at home carry on the pretense that all is just as it should be.

All the things the boy will do, I promise to do better. In all the ways he can love you, I promise to love you better.

Humans double-deal. If it is true that we are made in His likeness, then does God double-deal?

Maybe love was some combination of friendship and infatuation. A deeply felt affection accompanied by a certain sort of awe. And by gratitude. And by a desire for a lifetime of togetherness.

“Maybe sometimes it’s worth it to go around in circles. Maybe you learn more lessons that way.”

I wondered about the Bible as a whole. Maybe the entire thing was just a history of a certain culture, specific to that particular time and place, which made it hard for us now to understand, and which maybe even made it not applicable for us today.