Saturday, February 02, 2008

The Order of Love




Love is patient...
Yet love can only be patient when it is first grateful...


And it can only be grateful when it remembers:
  • There are no emergencies
  • There are all, only, gifts
  • There are never fears...


That is what I am thinking as we pour pancake batter into the griddle on a Saturday morning.

Milky, buttery circles loop about the pan in interconnected rings, misshapen hearts that sizzle and pop. A toddler looms dangerously close to heat. A preschooler anxiously slops more. A lanky one flips prematurely, batter oozing, dripping. Sensitive child bursts into tears that the hearts are all smeared, the rings mashed. Oldest, with egg poised to crack, asks if I want more? More? More of this careening ride? I sense a loudness, akin to a pleading howl, surging close to my lips.


The Spirit soothes, strokes the frayed edges: “Love is patient.”

Love is patient.
How can I be patient in the tipsiness of this domestic chaos? How can I be patient in the pain of now?Click to read the rest of this post over at February's Christian Women Online

 

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In the experiences of a simple/crazy life,
farming Canadian dirt, raising
half a dozen exuberant kids,
stringing sheets out on the line....

I'm praying to slow and see
the sacred in the chaos,
the Cross in the clothespin,
the flame in the bush.

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