Midnight Jesus

The heart of God can be found in the unlikeliest places, in the unlikeliest people.It?s three a.m. in the side yard of a shack in the worst part of town. I?ve got a dirty-faced baby on my hip and there?s a pit bull standing on the septic tank in the next yard over barking his head off. My patient sits on the hood of her ex-husband?s low rider smoking a cigarette and dumpingher pills into a mud hole by the right front tire. Airbrushed across the hood of the car is a cross-eyed Jesus with open arms. She lays her hand on top of his as the still-hot engine ticks. Throughtears she pleads, ?Help me Jesus, please.?The dog is silent. Sirens approach. ?Just breathe,? I tell her. ?Everything?s gonna be all right.? The baby fidgets, resting her head against me, staring up into my eyes. I raise one finger and she holds it tight.I fumble for the words again. ?Just breathe.? Midnight Jesus shares fascinating, bizarre, and sometimes humorous true-life stories of everyday people looking for hope in their darkest hours. Poignant and unpretentious, Jamie paints beauty where at times it seems none exists?from skating rinks and bars, late-night

Blaine, Jamie