Saturday Prayer, March 6, 2021

Nancy Donovan took the picture below when it was 12℉, and the snow was falling. She is not a church-goer but she called her picture “Lilac resurrection.”

God,  I give you thanks,
not so much for the Easter
coming in twenty-nine more days,
but the everyday easters
that look like …

home from the hospital after covid,
ninety meetings in ninety days,
a child’s first standing up–
nothing to hold on,
wobble, wobble, sit on puffy diaper,

successful March kidding
by an old goat mother,
maple sap dripping in a pail,
the sweet scrape of a bow
at a first violin lesson,
a college acceptance letter,
re-shaping grandma’s ring
for a new engagement,

the reconciliation of siblings,
the arrival of the new shelter dog,
after weeping at the earth-end
of the rainbow bridge.

God, I give you thanks
for the sometimes-inconvenient
moveable date of big-Easter,
and how it teaches me to recognize
all the others. amen.

Please feel free to name such easters for you in the comments.

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Maren C. Tirabassi’s newest book is “Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald’s and Other Poems” and she blogs at http://giftsinopenands@wordpress.com/ She’s a UCC, US, pastor and a writer and lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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