DATE WITH THE GODS

My Trip to Nazca Plains 97

my Bible, in St. John, Chapter 20: 27-31, where Christ

talks to Thomas about faith.

Then he saith to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and

behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and th rust it

in to my side: and be not fa ithless, but believing.

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord

and my God.

jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen

me, thou has believed: blessed are they that have not seen,

and yet have believed.

And many other signs truly did jesus in the presence of

his disciples, which are not written in th is book.

But these are written, that ye might believe that jesus is

the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might

have life th rough his name.

After reading this scripture, we got on the bike and
drove back to the hotel in silence.
As we hid the motorcycle in the back of the hotel,
Rama talked more about Jesus the Christ. But always in
an unusual way. When she referred to him, she made it
sound as if she knew him personally, continually
calling him a friend, a dude, a cool individual, a freak.
This was the first time I'd heard someone I like say good
things about Jesus, without calling him "Our Lord Jesus
Christ." Strangely enough, there was nothing disre­
spectful nor arrogant about her way of expressing her
feelings about him. She said she was sorry she couldn't
talk to me about Jesus because she could feel that my
belligerent attitude got to the best of me whenever the
subject came up.
I liked the way Rama talked about him, in language
that enabled me to grasp the idea rather than the words.
And in a way that didn't get my adrenalin rushing.
Rama went down toward the river and I went into the
restaurant.