Steeple Power

‘All this science is nothing compared to His grace’, she says as we turn to go.

I glance at the church where she just spent the past two hours, and keep my peace. I’m just happy to see her.

The church’s steeple, though, belies what she just said. At the very top glistened a small but definite testament to the fact that religion has lost to science long ago:

A Lightning Rod.