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Smaller Gods

When the large gods leave, smaller ones take their place: a morning, a habit, a person who expects you. They ask less and promise less, and they have the singular virtue of being here.

Nobody chooses the hour their certainty leaves. One Tuesday the roof simply stops holding, and the weather comes in. What you do next is not a philosophy. It is a practice.

It is perhaps the case that, in some sense, a habit kept daily might come to carry something like the weight of a belief.

The proof is not in the arguing. The coffee is made, the walk is walked, the friend is called. Conviction arrives late, out of breath, to take the credit.

This is not consolation. It is smaller than that, and sturdier: a god the size of a morning, one you can actually keep.

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