Love Our Only World

     When I had to decide on a title for my blog, I chose the last line of the poem called “Starfish” by Mary Daniels.  I can easily call to mind memories of looking into a tidepool, fascinated by the beauty of those colorful animals among the rocks, but reluctant to reach into the unknown, to enter their alien world and touch them.  As I cross the bridge into this new adventure in ministry, I have similar feelings.  The last part of the poem goes like this:

What good does it do/ to lie all day in the sun/ loving what is easy?

It never grew easy,/but at last I grew peaceful:

all summer/ my fear diminished

as they bloomed through the water/ like flowers, like flecks

of an uncertain dream,

while I lay on the rocks, reaching/ into the darkness, learning

little by little to love/ our only world.

     My hope is that writing this blog will help me see more clearly and appreciate the beauty around me as I share it, and extend love’s reach into the darkness, little by little.


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