A Trick of Light In Sunday School today I saw Jesus looking at Miss Hooker where she sits in the big chair and tells stories from the Good Book and some of them about Him, Jesus I mean. I like the one where He walks on water, which is a neat trick if you're not a waterstrider or the Son of God, which I'm not. Neither. I'm just ten years old and small for my age and can't do a damn thing but get fair grades in school and sin, sin up a storm sometimes, and maybe that's why I like that story, Jesus trying to calm me down so I don't hurt anybody anymore by talking back to Mother or forgetting to feed my dog or refusing to pick up my dirty clothes or keep my comic books in order. But first He opened one eye, did Jesus, trying to take a peek, I guess, into what Miss Hooker was reading us. And then he opened the other eye and took a wider look at all us students but I don't think that anyone saw Him except me. And when He looked dead-on, I shut my own, eyes I mean, because to stare down the Savior is probably the worst sin of all, next to suicide that is, and not believing in God at all. And if I have my Bible right, Jesus and God are really the same, even though He's the other's son—I mean God is Jesus' father, if you don't count Joseph, and I guess I don't but I don't quite know why not. And to confuse things there's the Holy Ghost, Who's also God and since God is also
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