Daisies, buttercups 
form roadside constellations
          in a fresh green sky.

Big meal at breakfast,
Smaller as the day goes on -
       Did just opposite!

Going to bed stuffed - not good!

Woodwinds sigh and squeal, 

horns blare, drums rumble, kids run -

     moon over it all. 

 

First band concert in new bandshell.  

Showers end at six.

Big deal or not a big deal?

         Picnic starts at six! 

 

 And bonus from Monday:

Square dance at Eastwood -

"I really like to polka" (1)

          Roll out the barrel! 

(1) audience member!

 

 

A poke in the arm,

an hour in the waiting room,

          a poke in the rear.

 

Figure it out? 

Green purple leaflets

emerge, unfold, and stretch out -

               "Hello potato!" 

 So - Father's Day.

And the lessons are Abraham dismissing Hagar and Ishmael (son),

and God saying he will make it alright (what world does that make sense in?)

and Jesus saying "I have come to set a man against his father and a woman against her mother"

and "whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me."

 

I was asked today what I have learned about being a father -

   +that someone else's success 

       brings you greater joy than any of your own,

   +that someone's else's struggles 

       bring more anguish than any of your own,

   +that someone else's suffering hurts more than your own,

   +that in a family you simply love each other, 

       not one person more (or less) than another.

Is that how it is for you, God?