Follow the Skittles...How ET got Home

ET followed the Skittles and got home. We long for home and there's some Rube Goldberg construction that gets us there. Look at all the unlikely stuff that comes together for ET. A little boy, a bag of something an ET has never tasted before, but like most mysterious stuff offered by well intentioned, it works, it gets ET from one place to the next. Then there's the phonograph thing and somehow it generates a signal and a message and somehow the message leaps through the unknown and somehow links up with home. Prayer maybe? Is this how prayer works?

I've gone back to the Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon me." I read the story of a young man on a spiritual quest who found a monk wandering in a forest. The young man asked the monk if it was possible to pray without ceasing. That was his quest, to pray without ceasing. The monk said yes and eventually taught the young man the Jesus Prayer. He told him to pray the prayer 12,000 times a day, day after day; until the prayer filled every moment.

ET then takes that wild bicycle ride. Wouldn't you love to have such transportation? Ever dream you can fly? Isn't that every dream: flying through some unknown where you are everything in the dream, everything all at once. Sailing through the light of the super moon and beyond, returning to shadow and earth and the place so grounded that even the unknown and ultimately mysterious can find you right there where the bicycle lands.

I cried during ET, not once but kinda got started and just couldn't stop. All the wonder-mystery bound together in boundless love and a dream coming true because a little boy and an unlikely stranger worked and worked and worked to pray it all into reality- that always makes me cry. ET Home. Yes, ET HOME.

See any Skittles lying around? I see them or I see something. What is that?