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| Sunrise at Hot Springs - New Dawning of Days |
[A random smattering of words to mark the completion of my MDiv coinciding with my 65th birthday. If you are in my orbits in any way at all, I hope you recognize yourself.]
Today I attempt the impossible.
I want to convey,
some how, some way,
the enormity of my gratitude --
the sheer and impossible enormity of it --
this day, and say:
I could not have done any of it without you.
About you I think with great affection
and recollection
of all my imperfections
as I stumbled through the sections
of study.
You were my buddy,
even when all the books made me kind of
nutty.
You waited, or took up the slack,
had my back.
You let me read
and honoured my need
to go away
and stay off the grid
with signs up even.
And even
some of you
offered more books
without looks or mocking or knocking.
And you took me seriously enough
even when it was rough
because a girl isn't supposed to study this stuff,
but you went to bat for me,
and came alongside to make it happen anyway.
And
I
will
never
be
the
same.
And I got it done.
I did.
Because of you.
And You.
Father, Son and Spirit true.
Who never let me go.
That's why I know
that turning sixty five
is as alive as I've ever been
on
the
brink
of
everything.
