Sleeping Under a Mosquito Net (Now I Know There Must Be a God)

A funny white manwalked by my house theof the sadness that I undoubtedly hadrunning all
other day.over my face.
And ... as he lumbered alongthe small paththat ledUltimately however, ... he only asked," WHY?"
to the entranceof my dusty little villageI looked at him with a sweet unassuming smile.
I smiled ...as I looked up at his greasy redThen with considerable flairand more than just a
...sunburned face.touch ...of disbelief, I said,
Much to my surprise however,before I could even"someone stole my mosquito net.
beginto gather my scattered thoughts,And they took my mother's TOO."
I heard him say,Upon hearing this, he made a peculiar grimacethat
"YOUNG LADY, ...seemed to stick all over his slimy WHITE ...face.
Do you know that JESUS loves you?"But before I could even begin to understandwhat
Do you know that HE died for you?any of this could possibly begin to mean,he had
As you might well imagine,already called for a big yellow TAXI.
I was in for a bit of a shock!In a matter of seconds ...we were off to the
But before I could even answer the question ...heluxurious,upscale central market.
pushed a King James Bibledirectly into my littleBefore I knew it, ...
hands.I had a big blue mosquito net for me,and a RED
And while I usually make it a pointto be kind toone for my mom.
foreigners, ...Afterward ...he took me to my humble house.
I was in absolutely no moodfor any of hisBut it was only then ...that I began to beam from
shenanigans.ear to ear.
In fact, I wanted to tell him... flat out,that I had noYou see ... it had seemed like such a long timethat
interest in reading it,at all.anyone cared for both meand my mom.
But before I did,But as I walked through our crumbling,dilapidated,
I decided to bite my tongue.ramshackle doorway ...my mom cheerfully said,
And with a bit of self restraint, and somefurther"What on earth are you so happy about?"
thought ...I said, " Don't you know that Jesus LOVES me,
I decided it might be betternot to rain on hismom?.
unseemly parade.Look! ... A funny white man gave me two big
In the meantime, however,this funny man lookedmosquito nets!"
at meagain ... and again, and again!At this moment, my mother looked at me with
Of course, I felt terribly uncomfortable.nothing less than
But to make matters worse ...with absolutely noPURE ASTONISHMENT!
warning at all,he pointed his big white fingerIt had been months since anything good had
directly atmy little brown thigh!happenedto either of us.
Then ... With NARY A THOUGHT,he only said,So ...after she slowly examined the lines of
"what in GOD'S CREATION are THOSE?"expressionupon my face,she whispered ever so
As my my mouth dropped open inapparentgently,
disbelief,"Don't you know that your a Buddhist, dear?"
I said, "WHAT?"For a few seconds I thought about what she had
He said, "THOSE?"to say.
Perhaps I should have known better,but I was stillBut then I quickly said, "Mom,
completelydazed and disoriented.Does that mean I can't love Jesus, too?"
In a smitten voice I only said,"Of course not", she replied.
"I've been ITCHIN.""Now here, let me help you.
He said "ITCHIN?"Let's put them up right away."
I looked downand yellow green PUSSwas flowingWith a loud sigh of relief, she finally said,
like a putrid river ...that ran from the depths of"Maybe tonight we will finally get some sleep."
my ugly little wounds."And who knows ...maybe tomorrow another
But this strange man seemed to haveno shamefunny white manwill bring us a beautiful Christmas
at all ...tree."
His eyes began to stick to me like glue."That's what I like about you mom", I said.
Finally by this time ...he had decided to lower his"Humor in the face of REALITY;
head.HUMOR in the face of reality;that's what I
And I began to think that he could finally feelsomeREALLY like!