{"id":24653,"date":"2025-02-04T01:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/?p=24653"},"modified":"2025-02-04T01:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:17:52","slug":"where-jesus-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/2025\/02\/where-jesus-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Jesus Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_24656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24656\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24656 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/664\/2025\/02\/cookie-756601_640-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"An oatmeal cookie with a dusting of powdered sugar in the shape of a heart\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image via pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>It was the most anxious of days.<\/p>\n<p>There is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/2025\/02\/tell-them-it-rained-all-day\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">so much to be anxious about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are fortunate enough not to be American right now, I can\u2019t describe the stress. I felt like I was in a dream for days. I\u2019ve had trouble getting to sleep again\u2013 and when I wake up, I\u2019m in a panic. It\u2019s exhausting.<\/p>\n<p>In this mental state I kept putting off chores, until the compost bucket in the kitchen was nearly overflowing with coffee grounds and microwaved eggshells. I noticed it and took it outside in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>There was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/2024\/10\/the-mandrake\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the Artful Dodger\u2019s little sister<\/a>, the one who\u2019s about six, walking by herself in a winter coat bigger than she was. LaBelle is a dirt poor neighborhood with quite a few squalid properties and our share of addicts and guns, and I don\u2019t like that. But if I ever get out of here, I will miss that the parents of LaBelle tend to let their children wander the neighborhood unsupervised, playing with one another and getting into trouble all afternoon. There\u2019s an unspoken understanding that good people will keep an eye on wandering children, in case any troublemakers happen along. That\u2019s as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her enormous coat, this little girl was burdened with\u00a0 gigantic toy horse she had to carry with both hands, and she was crying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the matter?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to go to So-and-so\u2019s, but she told me to come back tomorrow. But I can\u2019t tomorrow, because we have to go to CHURCH!\u201d The girl wailed the last word and cried even harder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I\u2019m sorry.\u201d I gave her a hug with my clean hand, the one that hadn\u2019t been holding the compost bucket. \u201cThat used to happen to me sometimes when I was your age. I was just on my way to the garden, to turn over the compost heap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The girl perked up \u201cCan I help?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, she could help. The toy horse went onto the porch steps to watch. The shovel was twice as big as she was, and the coat didn\u2019t make matters easier, but she enjoyed picking up a yucky shovel full of straw and kitchen waste, and turning it over, and doing it again and again. As she shoveled, I ripped out what weeds I could from among those strawberry plants. The yard was still frozen over, so that wasn\u2019t much.<\/p>\n<p>As we worked, we chatted like old friends. The young Dodger said that she liked living in the rickety old house across the alley, except for \u201cthose darn pigeons\u201d that got into their attic. She said \u201cthose darn pigeons\u201d in such a grown up voice that I knew she was quoting her mother.\u00a0 I laughed and showed her the weak spot in the gutter where those darn pigeons had made their nest, causing one tile of the bathroom ceiling to soak and fall in before we realized what happened. Those darn pigeons are the bane of LaBelle. They are more destructive than the rats.<\/p>\n<p>The girl laughed when I accidentally called her by her sister\u2019s name. There are three girls and two boys living in that house, they all look identical except for their height, and they all have regal Italian given names as if they\u2019re a family of opera singers. She was not the youngest female Dodger but the middle one. She complained that her brother never lets her play too, when Jimmy\u2019s boy visits, and I sympathized.<\/p>\n<p>Just at that moment, as if they\u2019d been summoned by speaking their names, Jimmy\u2019s boy and the Artful Dodger came running through the alley from their backyard clubhouse. They were jealous that a younger girl got to use the real shovel, but I insisted she had it first. She kept right on shoveling while they broke up the old spindly sunflower stalks with me. I told them my plans for the garden this year: the herbs, the blackberry bush, the tomato cages. I explained that I was getting motion sensor floodlights to go with the security camera, to scare off any raccoons that might help themselves to a pumpkin, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/2024\/09\/throw-it-to-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"> looked hard at the Artful Dodger<\/a> while I said it. But I also said that any neighbor who needed some food was welcome to knock at the door and ask.<\/p>\n<p>When we couldn\u2019t stand to garden in the cold anymore, we went in for hot chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you like Jesus too?\u201d asked the girl, pointing to the Vernicle in my icon corner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love Jesus!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love Jesus too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI HAVE to love Jesus!\u201d said Jimmy\u2019s boy, in such a funny voice that Adrienne looked up from the phone and laughed with us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have corn flakes like us!\u201d said the little girl, inspecting the boxes in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think every poor person in town has a stockpile of generic cornflakes from the food pantry. Now, wash ALL the germs off your hands until you\u2019re all clean, and don\u2019t leave any black on your fingernails!\u201d I demanded.<\/p>\n<p>By the time their hands were clean and the water was steaming on the stove, they had found Adrienne\u2019s Legos.\u00a0 It was a minefield walking into the dining room in my bare feet with three mugs. The little girl had set up the Lego Hello Kitty dollhouse, and the boys were making a helicopter; the pieces were scattered to every corner of the room. They played as I measured out the flour and oatmeal, to see if we had enough for baking. They played as I made another batch of my Christmas oatmeal cookies and put them in the freezer to chill. They kept right on playing as I put them in the oven. But they came into the kitchen, suspicious, as I took them out to cool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre those for US?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, they\u2019re for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Half a pan disappeared in a moment.\u00a0 The girl showed us all how her horse can pose in different stances, and played with the stuffed animals I\u2019d put away in a closet. The boys finished their helicopter, and put it on display in my living room.<\/p>\n<p>And then it got dark. Time to go home.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy came looking for his boy.<\/p>\n<p>I packed the Dodgers a bag of leftover cookies, got the horse and the coat, and walked them home across the backyard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at that conjunction!\u201d I said, pointing up at Venus shining brightly right next to a crescent moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s where Jesus lives,\u201d said the girl with reverent confidence.<\/p>\n<p>She is wrong, of course. Jesus lives in LaBelle. You can tell it\u2019s Him because he\u2019s poor, and burdened, and helpless, and if you don\u2019t look out for Him He might fall into the hands of bad people and be crucified again. If you do look out for him, though, He will come to your house and sup with you.<\/p>\n<p>I babbled on about a beautiful planet millions of miles away, so close to the sun that its surface was boiling hot, as I took them back to their yard.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers waved goodbye to me and made their way across the messy yard home.<\/p>\n<p>Just then, I wasn\u2019t afraid of anything.<\/p>\n<p>I felt as if I would never fear anything again.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"main-post\">\n<div class=\"story-block\">\n<div id=\"main-content\" class=\"entry-content clearfix\" data-instance=\"LT0fO\" data-cmd=\"true\">\n<div class=\"main-post\">\n<div class=\"story-block\">\n<div id=\"main-content\" class=\"entry-content clearfix\" data-instance=\"EelCs,tcdp5,3LLRT,3Za4y,zW5Ro,kmFEj,WdWcS,tDDMD,AhxjP,LT0fO\" data-cmd=\"true\">\n<p><em>Mary Pezzulo is the author of\u00a0<a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Meditations-Way-Cross-Mary-Pezzulo\/dp\/1949643433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Meditations on the Way of the Cross,\u00a0<\/a><a class=\" decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sorrows-Joys-Mary-Pezzulo\/dp\/1955821828\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Sorrows an<\/a><a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sorrows-Joys-Mary-Pezzulo\/dp\/1955821828\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">d Joys of Mary<\/a>, and\u00a0<a class=\"decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avemariapress.com\/products\/stumbling-into-grace?gclid=CjwKCAiA6aSABhApEiwA6Cbm_64-bP59YWJmFni-iGXq4KgITq1EU8hMvt9cV0qJvskRRmsTLYavURoC4SoQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stumbling into Grace: How We Meet God in Tiny Works of Mercy.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Steel Magnificat operates almost entirely on tips. 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