Does It Seem Like God Gives a Crap?

I gave up my country for Lent

Photo by Andrew Schultz on Unsplash

I’m sitting here in Hermosillo, Mexico at my little table on the patio with the spiders and the ants. It’s the Catholic holy week, Lent, March 24th. The Fariseos have been coming around in small groups, dancing and collecting alms, suffering silently their 40-day penance. The Fariseos are the Yaqui Indians’ contribution to this mixed-up cornball of a…