Biking has a spiritual quality, and, down by the Grant Park Golf Course, a biblical quality. For years I've encountered these chalked passages, always in the same place, always freshly and carefully written. They appear one at a time, and when rain or use erases them, a new one is provided. They're always taken from the King James Version, with its powerful, crunchy, 17th-century syntax. They make me think, not just of the message, but of those who went before us -- Joshua, Paul, King David. People who didn't have bikes or cars. David surely had a chariot, but nearly everybody else walked or sailed almost everywhere they went.
