God Around the Corner

God Around the Corner By Mark D. Stucky My cat’s favorite spot to sleep and surveil the house was at the top of the hallway-to-basement stairs. I would sometimes stealthily lie down on the floor just around the hallway corner from her and wait. No matter how quiet I tried to be, she soon peeked around the corner, her curious face mere inches from mine, delighted at her discovery. We had also been inches apart just moments before but blocked by an optical barrier of spliced sheetrock. Although she couldn’t see me, she could sense my nearness. Her cat’s curiosity caused her to investigate my presence. If we are quiet and still enough, can we feel God’s unseen nearness just around the mystical corner of everyday earthly existence? If we follow spiritual senses, can we come “face to face” with the divine? (First published in Agape Review, 11 June 2023. See also my poems “Consider the (Dreaming) Birds” and “Jurassic Prayer.”) (Image by Sebastian Molina fotografía on Unsplash.com.)