Wherever I go you are there....
Even in Pokemon
“So, what have you been doing lately?”
She asked - the woman with whom
I once taught theology.
“Catching Pokémon,” I admitted,
“Hours at a time.”
“Really,” she laughed.
“What got you into that?”
“My daughter and her beau.
They offered me
an invitation I couldn’t refuse:
One to enter their world.”
“That virtual world?” she exclaimed.
“And what, pray tell, keeps
you there so long?”
“God.
You know the psalmist’s plaint:
‘Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?’”
“But, Denise,” she doth protest,
“That’s in the actual world -
Not some artificial, profit-seeking,
tech-driven ploy that isn’t real!”
The conversation shifted.
She departed.
I stepped into bright sunshine
and asked:
What is real?
Is not my delight
in seeing the myriad manifestations
of human imagination in my hands
real?
Or what about the camaraderie
we Pokémasters experience when
we gather to defeat a great foe?
Just imagined?
And - I guess too - the sense
of gratitude in receiving
gifts from those I would
otherwise not interact
is meaningless.
According to her, I assume,
it is - as it was once to me,
that is, until that moment
as I was bemoaning our youth’s
obsession with virtual reality,
God spoke unto me:
“You know I’m in their world, too.
You need only enter.
I dare you.”
That was why, upon being invited, I did.
And discovered - once again -
the boundaries I so confidently assert -
exist only in the virtual reality
within my own head.
And so I will go, once again,
into our youth’s world,
to discover anew what I’ve always
known.
Wherever I go, wherever I flee -
God is already there.
About the Creator
Denise Davis
A Manhattan-toasted, Kentucky marinated, Southern Californian, this 60+ year old woman has studied writing, taught writing and admired writing. It's time to actually begin writing. We shall see how this goes.
Comments (1)
Woah. Good one.