“I have found that God moves mightily when his people ask with specific and consistent prayers. In fact, I believe that specific and consistent prayers get specific and consistent answers.” –John Ryser, Fruit of the Vine

Query: How is God at work in your life?

they begged me to stay

I would be breaking oodles

of cosmic First Contact laws, they said

but I had peered inside your planet’s Empathy Ray

with no instrument to unsee your pain, your problem

how could I float by sending thoughts and prayers without action?

savior-complex, they intoned

trying to explain away my resolve with labels

only child, attention-seeker, misguided messiah,

cape-lover, Justice League obsessed, class clown,

what will your superpower be? they mocked

L o v e .

–Joann Renee Boswell, from “The Ultimate Immigrant, part I: Inception” in Cosmic Pockets