I am in love with a married man, and I’m not talking about the man I’ve been married to for the past 30 some odd years. I’m talking about another man.
I don’t know his wife so I’m not too sure what she’d think of me being in love with her man. I suspect that’s she’s kind of grown accustomed to all that adulation heaped on her man.
I don’t know what his daughters think either, but surely they understand. They must love him near about as much as they love God. I bet they come to love him even more as they grow older and realize what a truly remarkable father they’ve been fortunate to have.
He don’t know I’m in love with him. Well, if he’s reading this piece, he’ll know now. But I’m just saying there’s nothing illicit about this love I have for this married man.
I’m not attracted to him in any physical way, not that there isn’t good reason to be, he’s a fine looking fella, easy on the eyes. It’s just that’s not the source of this wellspring of emotion I have towards him.
I fell in love with him at a hotel room in Portland, Oregon. I’d picked up a copy of his book Clay’s Quilt at Powell’s Bookstore earlier that evening and while all the other journalists attending a conference went out the bar, I curled up in the middle of that big ol’ bed and began reading that mountain story.
It is such a fine story you need to read it yourself. I thought his name — Silas House — was all made up, just like the story itself, but it’s not. That’s really his name.
Silas is from Kentucky, not too far from where my own daddy grew up. He is a truly gifted writer and more important than that, Silas is just a very fine man, from the inside out.
To help you understand why it is I’ve fallen in love with a married man, I want you to read Silas’s thoughtful post about his faith. Read Part One first. Then Part Two.
Tell me what you think. I have a hunch you’re going to fall in love with this man too.
my first time to read your blog and you reference my favorite book store in the city i live in.
i like you already.
i have likened many books that i’ve read as lovers. i often am madly in love with the book i am currently ravishing, or rather, being ravished by. i am such a floozy when it comes to a good read.
so yes, i have been in love with many married men, and women, and even dead writers. i have no shame. none. i will bring any author into my bed.
not sure how i found you on twitter, but i did. and now i found your blog. double score. and that’s how the wonderful viral world of social networking creates magic.
see you around the twitterverse!
Yes Karin I will be spending a lot of time at the library finding some of these books .Silas is a man of my heart how beautiful is he….That is why I love you and your books so much. You gave me such a beautifull insight into religion. I have a problem with structured Religion it seems so cultish. We are surrounded by god since birth and what we do with god is up to us as we grow and learn. Amen
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Thanks for sharing this….I’m so exhausted from sleep deprivation I cannot begin to articulate what I’m feeling after reading his posts. Just that God brought another piece of the learning to me….just when I needed it….and was ready for it.
Thank you!!! I’ll be reading more of this and several of the books he mentioned as well. (Anne Lamont is fantastic as well.)