The Days and Nights of Catherine Evermore

John 8:7 – And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Just because certain people aren’t running around with their hands in the air shouting Hallelujah, Praise the Lord, and Thank You, Jesus, does not mean they are not people of faith.

I am a person of faith. My relationship with God is personal. I have friends – devout Christians and Jews – who have prayed for me on more than one occasion. If prayers get you to Heaven then I’ve got my one-way ticket come Judgment Day.

Anyway, it is quite clear that if you don’t do the Christian boogaloo according to the gospel of certain folks then you are not true believers. There are those who would not know a Christian value or the polite, kind way to treat another person if it bit them on their ass.

Is it their job to roam the Internet looking for people to stone to death because – wait for it – they are good and fine upstanding members of the community, and as God as my witness, they are good Christians?

I don’t know what Bible some of you read, but I’m beginning to think there are those who have a Jim Jones mentality.

Warning: Don’t drink the Kool-Aid.

Thus endeth the lesson.

© Catherine Evermore. All rights reserved.

Operator
by The Manhattan Transfer

there is a space in her soul

a space that cannot be seen

it cannot be measured

it cannot be described

simply because there are

no words to explain how it feels

there is an emptiness in her life

for opportunities missed and decisions made

the basic desperation for survival

a lack of knowledge

a thirst to know more

the fear of forgetting everything

there comes a time when peace

must be made with a mind that said “turn left”

and a heart that insisted on “staying the course”

for the mind and the heart

have a way of sabotaging common sense

while leading each other to self-destruction

this is the time to let it all go and

make peace with the past because

only forgiveness can cleanse the soul

© Catherine Evermore. All rights reserved.

House Of The Rising Sun
by The Animals

He sat very still as I applied red lipstick to his soft lips. I wondered if he would laugh but he did not – maybe he was afraid to see himself wearing my color. Perhaps the anticipation made his heart race rather quickly, causing him to be silent.

We both enjoyed the lipstick traces as they made a map around necks and shoulders and lower backs and bellies and elbows and foreheads and backs of knees and tops of feet, back to lips meeting lips after the color had worn off completely.

© Catherine Evermore. All rights reserved.

Straight To Number One
by Touch and Go

… Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who’s there

… Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer

… Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver

… Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith

… Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone to care

… Feeling unknown
And you’re all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I’ll make you a believer
I will deliver
You know I’m a forgiver

… Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith

I met some people along the way
Crazy as the night and day
They twisted truths to meet their needs
Then shared their lies and dirty deeds

They cried to anyone who’d listened
Then turned their truths as swords against them
There are no questions to be asked
Actions answered all at last

© Catherine Evermore. All rights reserved.

Crazy
by Gnarls Barkley