800 miles from home

Tennessee Sunday
Jesus on the Radio
Three shirts for ten bucks

“Why are the Jews rich?” Asks the man of God in that Baptist tone and cadence reserved for sermons. ‘Why do they prosper? You see them prospering everywhere and it’s because they remember and honor the covenant of Abraham.”

I thought it had more to do with making sure their kids went to school, but what do I know? Maybe it’s a coincidence that the library is full of Indian and Korean kids in the evening, but maybe they prosper because of some other covenant or some other gods.

Somewhere else this morning, the descendents of Abraham are killing each other, while Buddhists and Hindus are working hard.

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Welcome to Georgia

Elderly country couples, proud in old, worn suits and blue hair, eating at the Waffle House in Tifton, Sunday morning after Church. Pick up trucks in the parking lot with red dirt in the wheel wells.

They drive fast in Georgia; traffic moving at 90. The Georgia boys in the new Japanese truck sporting yellow ribbons made in Taiwan nearly kill themselves cutting me off so that they can go home thinking they won something, at long last. They support our troops, or so the ribbons declare.

Three T-shirts for ten dollars, ten miles ahead. Jesus is Lord at Sheffields campground. 500 more miles to go.