some days are like that
busy.
take a moment.
or two.
the sea gulls
have been calling to me all day,
calling me home
to
You.
the sun shines
on bright tiny new leaves
swaying in the breeze,
as the sweetgum wakes up –
oh my morning stars!
they are tiny birds!
i am the one waking up.
i want to give you more
and i feel guilty that i do not…
but that is not what you are asking.
and you have no intention of filling me with shame, nor do you understand guilt.
Love does not want our shame –
it only requires that we give and forgive,
again
and again.
a light rain falls
as i enter the home of worship –
no ceiling covers the altar,
the chalice is cradled in the branches of the budded acolyte’s arms…
the choir sings
and all is blessed.
Enter your home.
Worship.
overhead the sky fills with hawks
i look up as the wings fill the sky
taking my breath away with the possibilities of flight.
Then, as i sit behind the fence,
feeling both secure and trapped,
a cardinal flies thru it –
as if there is no fence at all.
Navigation is all about focus.
as i child i was told
“it takes all ages and stripes”
and
“You can’t tell a tiger to change his stripes” –
not to mention somehow i needed to
“earn my stripes”
but no one ever said,
“there will be stripes sleeping at your door.”
Quite independent of all idioms,
he cares neither to change his stripes,
nor if they are earned or unearned.
Yet, he changes daily,
understanding it takes all ages and all stripes
and a moment of grace under an eave in the rain
to awaken when the sun comes out.
The sky is gray.
Light rain dusts us as we walk.
Gentle winds make music of chime and branch
and the owl calls from her nest.
All is tone.
Play?
Spray!
learning each others languages can be tricky,
but
with patience, we can be friends at the end of the day.
Do you ever have that moment
when you realize
that someone you love
really doesn’t understand you at all?
“Yes, daily”,
she said, as she looked up,
taking a pause from licking the leftover soup from my bowl.
“It’s ok, though, you don’t have to understand to love.”
Ministry of Animals 