A Conversation with the Holy Spirit

So, he said to me, "Do you play chess?" Not well enough to play with you, I thought but dared not say. "OK, I'll try a move or two." He said, "I'll be white, but you can go first." I said, "No fair; that was your first move!" And He just smiled. I didn't want to sacrifice the pawns, much less the beautiful knights or triangulating bishops, so I focussed on the castles, and then decided that was pretty risky. All that was left of course were the King and the Queen and I knew I needed them. "So, hmm..." I paused for a decade or so and muddled around, testing theories inside my own pictured head, and then when all my strategy was null and void, I sighed and said, "I know the game; I like to play, but I lost the rulebook along the way: Tell me the forfeit that I must pay." He looked at me with those inside eyes and just breathed. So, I laughed at his checkmate and the game was over, but Life had just begun, and the neat part was that we both won. It was easy afterall.