...respectfully jeff, i love this. read a whole lot of your work, nearly all you've posted and this is SOME SERIOUS POETICS here. i appreciate the fact that you capitalize God, the Supreme Being...all the directions one can go with your words like you used[well!]can't say enough. and i've deduced[to me, anyway] that those 'lil devils' are temptation and free will. free, but if misused but very costly...sorry for the scroll, i am charged-up with the mature attitude in this, no whining, just askin', eh?

It seems to me Jeff that we play with words. We don't seem to believe that we could be good without god and yet we refuse to take responsibility for our own actions. Some of us have no conscience and some feel guilty for breathing. We look to things for which there is no proof, some believing one things some another with one carrying no more weight than the other. As someone said you buys your ticket and you takes your chances. Good write.

... outstanding.....

Very thought-provoking - good write.