When change comes big

I wrote this thinking of the nine people who lost their jobs today at the Diocesan Center.  As with most advice, I give it to myself as well.   Change often comes big, looms large and incomprehensible.  When I think about it, most change comes big.  Pitching rocks seems to help.  Friends definitely help.  My prayers and blessings go with the nine, and with all who are walking through really big change, whatever that change may be.

When change comes big

Really big

It can be hard

To get your arms around it.

Sometimes it helps

To pitch rocks

In the backyard,

Take aim

At the back fence

Until it is finally

Finally a little smaller.

When change comes big

Really big

Even if it is almost entirely

Expected

It can still slip through your fingers

Incomprehensible.

Sometimes it helps

To find the plumbline of friends

Who have known you forever,

Or at least

A very long time,

Remind you of who

You still are,

Who they know you

To be.

When change comes big

Really big,

I recommend a pile of rocks,

An anchoring

Of good friends.