Variations on the theme

A friend helped me decorate my office (thank you, Terri!).  My brother gave me an Inuit print years ago of a woman in ceremonial garb standing on the moon, looking at the earth (thank you, Lane!).  The print is framed and hangs over the office sofa.  It is the piece around which the office is decorated.  It reminds me of a number of things: holding a wider perspective, celebrating what I see (the whole and the particular), remembering that as a therapist, I am also priest.  I am glad God has called me here.

Perhaps we never get the straight stuff,

Only variations on the theme

Of human.

Clients begin to approach

One by one.

They do not wait in line

Outside my door.

Each one echoes things

That are familiar.

They have seen miracles,

Heck they are miracles

Themselves.

Here they are

In my office,

The Inuit print on the wall

The Woman Who Went to the Moon

Shows both of us a wider picture of the world.

We talk variations on the theme

Of human.

And of course

We talk particularities.