To a God Unknown

by John Steinbeck

He felt a desire to open his body for her inspection, so that she could see all the hidden things in him, even the things he did not know were there.

“Perhaps there isn’t any change, ever, in anything. Perhaps unchangeable things only pass.”

Lord Jesus, make things easy for me because I am afraid. In all the time I’ve had to learn about myself, I have learned nothing. Be kind to me, Lord Jesus, at least until I learn what kind of thing I am.”

“I do not know whether there are men born outside humanity, or whether some men are so human as to make others seem unreal.