Last night I had the pleasure of going to Horizon Theatre’s production of The Perfect Prayer, written by Suehyla El-Attar. The show and the cast were all fabulous, and Suehyla’s words were especially poignant.

In the show notes, Suehyla revived a piece of a monologue that was cut in earlier drafts of the play:

The only thing God ever intended to separate people was the distance created by land or water. But we, as the creatures we are, have to have more between us; our own land that develops our cultures, that develops our religions, leads to opinions, judgements and rules that create more and more distance between us… ’til we’re so far apart, we don’t notice we’re right next to each other.

Well spoken.