Jesus Doesn't Take the Surface Streets
People like to complain about California. It's expensive. It's full of liberals thinking woke thoughts. Hollywood is corrupting the youth. Tech billionaires are destroying the planet. The entire state is sucking up all the West's water to make avocado toast.
It's even rumored to be Godless.
But actually, it's one of the few places where you can touch the divine on a daily basis. All you need to do is get on a California freeway. You've got five lanes, maybe six? Hang out in that far right lane and see if they take it away at a moment's notice. You've got construction that splits the lanes and rockets you past your exit. You've got a guy on a bike carrying an overgrown fern while riding on the shoulder. You've got CHP Troopers in tight pants with LIDAR guns and speed traps. You've got Cybertrucks driving like maniacs. You've got vans with no suspension driving like maniacs. You've got an entire fleet of Honda Civics and Accords which refuse to die passing you on the right. You've got people pacing your exact speed right in your blind spot for no reason. You're being tailgated by a middle aged man in a BMW. You're being tailgated by a lifted truck towing a trailer. You're now stuck behind a Cruise America RV taking up two lanes. A semi is riding your ass. You need to be in the far left lane because your exit is now on the left, and you need to cross six lanes of bumper to bumper traffic in the next 3/4 of a mile.
What you've got is hundreds of people with individual free wills driving multi-ton machines at twenty over the speed limit FaceTiming with their exes, shaving on their way to work, reading a book, watching a movie, fighting with their kids, and somehow, despite all of this, they aren't hitting you.
It makes no sense. You should be flattened a million times over, but despite all this, you make it to where you're going without anyone destroying you.
Forget church. Just go merge onto a California freeway. The ineffable is there, waiting for you. You think Jesus take the wheel is a saying? It's not. He's there, on the 10, on the 5, on the Grapevine, beach-toned arms open wide, hair LA perfect, smiling that Hollywood smile because he loves you and everyone else on the road with you.
California is full of the divine. I dare you to come up with a more logical explanation for the unrequited chaos of the California freeways.
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