One of the most beautiful and loving things anyone ever said to me was from a friend who is a very devout Christian.  He and I spent hours and hours talking about religion and the nature of faith.  I do not quite remember what I was going through at the time, bu...

I've always felt a little bowled over by that.  I'm, like, so much smaller than infinity, it's hard for me to even conceive of myslef as a child of God.  There's one part of me (probably my ego, which desperately wants my current physical body to...