Contract with an Angel by Andrew M. Greeley

Author:Andrew M. Greeley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2011-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

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Look, occupant, or Occupant if you prefer, I am now prepared to believe that there is someone or Someone out there who is remotely interested in us and listens to us on occasion. I have no idea what you’re like. Nor am I sure that your little friends are all that clear either, despite their pose of superiority. I am, however, prepared to believe that You had something to do with putting them on my case. So on the premise that you might be listening and might even care—though on the face of it that seems unlikely—I am going to try to talk to You. You can call it prayer if You like. I don’t much care what it’s called.

There is some remote possibility that you are linked to these feelings of ecstasy that I have been experiencing lately, especially when I’m with Anna Maria. Which reminds me, you were apparently there again last night, three of us instead of two in bed together. I want to thank You for that—what should I call it? will interlude do? Insofar as you were responsible for it. It was unbearably good..

If You are what some teachers claim You are, I suppose You are present in any act of love which is really love. I can understand that, I think. But it still seems strange.

You seem to want me to think that You touch me and I touch You through her. If that is true, it is a very clever scheme and I certainly won’t complain.

If You are really the Third that explodes into my life through my wife, then You are not only the Other, but Something Else Altogether and I’m afraid of You and deeply in love with You. I’m not sure I can separate You from my wife or that I should even try. If You are that Someone Else Altogether, it is a privilege to get to know You. I hope I don’t say anything to offend You. However, it might turn out that You are beyond being offended after the long centuries and millennia of dealing with our kind.

I’m not sure what I’m doing here at Old St. Patrick’s Church. It could get to be a bad habit.

But I need to talk to You.

Only I’m not sure why. Maybe I feel the need to go to the top instead of communicating through that damn imp of an angel. Or seraph. Or whatever. I accept his word that there is no devil, but they are so tricky and so vain and such incorrigible show-offs that I can understand why some people might have been confused.

I am thankful you sent the whole crowd of them to me, even though they think they can take over my life completely.

What I’m trying to say, not very clearly I admit, is that I am grateful to You for everything that has happened to me during the last couple of days, even if the price I have to pay is an early death. I am not going to ask you to change that.

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