Reframing

This is for missionaries everywhere, whatever their mission.  For Rebecca, Debbie, and Patience, my missionary classmates.  For Kathleen, who made it her mission to help me write that personal ad.  For Scott, who encouraged my beloved to answer my ad.  For my beloved, Jeff, who took the chance.

Today is for reframing

My professional life.

I remember three classmates:

Missionaries to

Guatemala

Peru

Nigeria.

I think I will be a missionary

To Glen Ellyn.

I remember the personal ad

I ran years ago.

I named myself

A community and family-oriented professional

Who enjoys ethnic food,

Instead of Episcopal priest,

Single mother with young child.

The newspaper made a mistake.

It said I liked ethnic good.

My beloved says if his friend

Hadn*t convinced him

It might be a typing mistake,

We never would have met.

I am grateful

To the friend,

Now a kind of missionary

In Norway.

Today is for reframing

Possibility.

After all

It has been reframed

Many times before.