Eventually

We have just gone off of Daylight Savings Time.  A new beginning is around the corner.  Whatever that looks like.  Before we begin again, leaving something else is required.  Sometimes we spend time in between.  I have had experience here before.  Funny, it always looks a bit different.

Leaving somewhere

Can open up the space

For arrival

Somewhere else.

Eventually.

The trick

Is to let go

And wait

For as long as it takes.

The church calendar wisely

Places Advent,

The beginning of the church year,

In December,

As the light winds down.

Eventually the light will return.

It always does.

It always does.

I tell you

I tell me

It always does.

In-between places

It is difficult to figure out where I fit, exactly.  Often I think the answer is no place, or no such place exists yet.  I find myself slicing off pieces to make the picture more viewable, somehow.  I understand this is not the right thing for me to do, or really, for anyone to do.  Really I*d like to offer the whole rainbow of who I am and what I have to offer in a language understandable to those who need to hear it.  I wonder what such a brochure would look like (and if it needs to be digital :-) )

I am not a fan

Of this in-between place:

The somehow-not -there -yet,

This place

Where I have gained

So much more experience than many.

I still try to give people I meet

Snapshots

For their particular

Photo album,

When photo albums don*t even exist

Anymore.

It*s all digital

After all.

It*s digital and

These pictures could never tell

Even the partial story,

Much less

Complete the picture.

It is a sliver of a slice

Of rainbow

Taken out of context.

Today I do not cheer

At this somehow-out-of-context-picture.

Today the picture contains something,

It looks like autumn light.

Today is marked

As in-between

Not-there-yet

The birds are massing early

It is only August

The light is autumn.

The birds know something

I have yet

To discover.