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