Collecting Light by Deborah Cooper

COLLECTING SCRAPS OF LIGHT
[This lovely poem was found and submitted by Theresa Scherf. As we journey through Lent and through life, teachers come in many forms and grace is assembled in many ways.]
I see the way the chickadees
take turns at the feeder.
I watch a neighbor take
her husband’s hand.
 
I see the way the sun will find
the only interruption
in dark clouds
to toss this amber light
across the pines.
 
I see a row of cars
stop on the road
until the orange cat
has safely crossed,
then take off slowly, should
she change her mind.
 
I watch the way my brother
lifts our mother from
the wheelchair
to the car,
the shawl he lays
across her lap.
 
I save up every scrap
of light,
because I know that it will take
each tiny consolation
every day
to mend the world.
 

• Save the Date! Church’s Annual Meeting, March 18
• HELP! From the Nominating Board
• Lent Opportunities and Holy Week
• Read “An Other Kingdom” With Union Church! Discussion Group on Sundays!
• From Rev. Kent
• Thank you from Rev. Rachel
• Music in March
• New staff Members, In Memoriam Gloria VanWinkle, March Birthdays & Anniversaries
• 5th Annual Refugee and Immigrant Day at the Capitol March 7th
• The moral case for cleaning up radioactive fracking waste illegally dumped in Estill County. By Bob Shaffer
• Habitat Update from Russ Barclay, Executive Director