The night after a service in an adobe mission in the Mexicali Valley south of town, I went to bed on a burlap cot in a Sunday School room that doubled as a guest room for visiting preachers. I didn’t sleep much that night. I could see some stars out the window, and I remember staring up at the ceiling as if I were gazing right up into outer space, contemplating my place in the universe. It was at that moment that I experienced the startling reality that I was alone. Completely and utterly alone. There was no supernatural realm, no God, no Devil, no demons, no angels helping me from the other
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