I sat down at the
computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a
good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the
ordinary things.
The first head - to - head speed test of the D - Wave Two, the commercial quantum
computer recently purchased by Google, suggests that the machine performs no
better than an
ordinary PC.