It is entirely possible

Ministers used to paid in chickens and whatever people had.  While I work to build a therapy practice I consider what it means to see God in everything and be a therapist available to a wide range of people.  I begin volunteering next week with the DuPage Community Clinic.  I am excited at the prospect.  I have good training and good perspective.  I have an abundance of experience in an abundance of things.  I am well worth those chickens, that bushel of zucchini, and the heirloom tomatoes, just picked.

It is entirely possible

I will be paid in chickens

Or perhaps zucchini

When that time comes

In August

And gardens overflow

With summer squash.

It is entirely possible

I will never make a living

The way others consider

A living

But still

I will be more alive

Than I have ever been before.

I will live on zucchini bread

And vegetables fresh

From the garden.

I may even be paid

In heirloom tomatoes.

The sessions will be ripe

And ripening,

Tied to more

Than I ever could have imagined.

It is entirely possible.