McManus has a conversation on stage with Elvis in this entry. He asks the King of Rock and Roll if he's ever felt insignificant. Mr. Presley thinks for a while and then mentions that he has felt that way. When asked how he got through those times, he confesses that it was the encouragement of those around him that helped him.
McManus then brags that he sometimes counsels people and he offers the advice that this moment of confession about feeling insiginificant sometimes is actually his most honest moment, because that's exactly what he is. Elvis is nothing but a bug waiting to hit a windshield. Just an evolutionary blip in time. Any adulation or imposed significance given him by his fans was just a community-felt delusion. That we're all just an insignificant accident waiting to die and be done with.
He asks Elvis how he's feeling after this bit of "counseling" and the King answers, "Not good." But McManus puts a period to the end of the conversation with:
"Oh, by the way, everything I just said is absolutely true if there is no God." The last two sentences of the entry expound on that thought:
Maybe you can't prove God in a tube, but you can find him in your soul. When he's missing, you can feel it in your gut.
I like that. Once again, he's used our innate need for significance, of destiny to show evidence for the existence of God. Our heavenly Father is real and He's created us with longings, dreams, and achings for something more than the temporal and fleeting.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at October 22, 2007 12:10 PM