Scratch

There are so many things that tempt my creative nature.  I have started things, even churches, and watched them grow and die, only to become ground for something else.  Sometimes I can't see that "something else"  but still I know it's there.  Churches, and even life, are not meant to be grasped and held.  My daughter attended a great new church in Denver.  What a wonderful thing it would be to plant a church... she thinks.  Me too.  Still... me too.  I am reminded again... me too.

I have reached the stage

In my life

I realize

I will never start a church

From scratch.

Scratch never made

A good beginning anyway.

Nothing

After all

Begins from scratch,

Much less

Much more

Gatherings of people

Who care about one another;

People

Who figure out new ways;

People

Who adopt old ways

To care.

No one

Will ever start a church

From scratch,

Not even me.