26 letters are enough

I am studying for the CADC exam.  This is yet one more set of professional letters I can add to the list when I am done.  It will signify that I have successfully completed a course of study which will qualify me to be a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor.  I am finding every field has its string of letters, and it would be more than possible to keep adding to the string.  I won*t. I admit... it is tempting... but I won*t.  Today is the Feast of the Holy Name.  Today is the day of the Name Above All Names.  That name is, very simply:  Jesus.

I sit with the letters I have

26

Just like everyone else.

They are enough to name

What wants to be named,

What needs to be named,

What calls to be named,

With letters left over.

I sit with letters I have

Earned,

Or not earned

Merely acquired.

Letters precede my name,

Proceed from my name.

Letters are my name.

They are Alpha-Bits:

They float in the breakfast milk;

Macaroni letters:

They swim in the chicken soup.

They are ancient wooden letter blocks

Left over from my childhood,

Wooden blocks with animals

On another side.

They are magnetic letters:

They taught me how to spell

On the refrigerator.

I sit with the letters I have

26

Just like everyone else.

New ones would not accomplish anything

New.