Love comes in different shapes and forms

I have a new office window.  It opens and shuts and has a screen!  I know there were people on Sunday who were a mite confused by my enthusiasm and offer of window tours.  Sometimes the oddest things contain the aura of love.  Love comes in different shapes and forms.


I now have an office window

That opens and shuts.

It will let the breeze blow through

When things cool off a bit.

There is even a screen.

The privacy curtain

Is in process.

It surprises me how such a simple thing

Can bring such joy.

One Sunday years ago I preached using

A stuffed anteater.

 I pulled it from a paper grocery sack

At exactly the right moment.

It was an illustration of love

Coming in different shapes and forms.

The anteater was a spontaneous gift

From my family.

They know how much (perhaps inexplicably)

I love anteaters.

I think I explained it well enough

In the sermon,

But I am sure there are people

Still confused.

Jesus, after all, never talked about anteaters.

I feel that same way about my new window.

It opens and shuts and has a screen.

When it is cool enough

I will let the breeze blow through.

Love comes in different shapes and forms.

On Sunday Laurie gave me a framed anteater print

For my office.

I don*t know whether anteaters

Are a private thing

She said

But it seemed right for your office.

The print now stands on an office shelf.

I can see it when I turn my desk chair.

I have a window that opens and shuts.

It even has a screen.

And

I even have an anteater

On the shelf.

Who could ask for more?