The Closest I've Come To God

"And suddenly I am simply nothing but a human being, walking on a dirt
track and carrying a bag of beets, looking up at the sky and enjoying
the smell of the fall air...I allow myself to entertain the concept
that God does exist. I think that if God is like a colossal computer
who knows everything that has happened in the world, then with his
giant Google of a mind he might do a search to see how many times this
has occurred in the history of the planet: "woman walking in autumn
with a bag of beets." I feel connected to every human who has sniffed
the fragrant air and walked the steady earth."

--Excerpt from "The Closest I've Come To God" by Lois Judson,
published in The Sun magazine, August 2009