Easter Wednesday

I woke this morning to read a post from someone who has become a favorite blogger, Kelly Flanagan:  His blog is called: Untangled.  His address is:  drkellyflanagan.com 

Today his post was about what good things we need to let go of in order for more good things to come in.  It reminded me of my Holy Week experience this year.  After many many years of parish ministry, I left it in 2007 to go back to school in clinical psychology.  Parish  ministry was a good thing, in so many ways, but it held me back from considering/plotting/planning/ yes... receiving more good things.  Sometimes it takes time to clear the decks.  Six years... really?  Yep.  This is an Easter dream.

I recommend his blog. 

New life comes in different forms.

Yes this is an Easter dream:

I woke up with it this morning:

I sat with my beloved

Way way back in the pews.

A small boy threw a paper airplane

From near the front of church.

It landed on the floor

Next to our pew.

We argued about who

Would sail it back.

Yes this is an Easter dream:

I did not have a wisp

Of a thought during Holy Week

Of

I would do it this way.

Not a wisp.

Our daughter was gone

In France.

We skipped the Vigil

Slipped in the back pew

Sunday morning

For Easter.

We ate at Panera before

We went grocery shopping

Afterward.

We did not color eggs but

Our daughter got a chocolate chicken

A la Max and Ruby

From her French family.

She ate chicken*s tail on the plane ride

Home.

Yes this is an Easter dream:

I can finally let go

Of my theology books

From seminary.

I may send them to Africa

Perhaps Nepal.

New life comes

In different forms.