Let's

Let's go for a walk in the woods,
turn off the TV, climb on
rocks at the beach, hold hands
at the table and pray. Let's study
a passage of Scripture together,
let's learn how to juggle,
remember how fun we once
had as a family, do it again,
mend the rifts and the tears
in the fabric we spun long ago.
Let's do this, go there, let's make
it priority.
Let's.
Let's.

Less.
Less.
Still less until

all the wonderful ideas in my head,
in the books, in the world, will not
work for a group if I do them alone.

But I'm up for a walk in the woods,
don't need the TV, can still climb on
the rocks at the beach, will be praying
the rest of my life.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014