I’m at back door, bag over shoulder, mirror just checked and strand tucked behind ear, and I call to them who mingle here, “I love you! I won’t be gone long…”
And a voice comes from the kitchen, high and young, heavy with stack of bowls from crumbed table. “Goodbye, Mom….” Dishes clatter.
“God goes with you!”
And then little lisp from child in her third year calls from somewhere further within, “For the Lord your God goes with you, wherever you go!” Memorized words.
And I linger on the back step, hand curved around door knob, and let unexpected blessing of tender olive shoots wash over bowed head.
They who pray over my going out with Scripture, ancient words scratched onto cerebral matter and felt along again and handed back to me, they anoint a heart with words learnt by heart.
I want to speak more words like that, borrowed God-words.
***Related Inspiration: Words of Life
Memorization aids:
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Photos: our chapel’s summer memorization sheets, children recite to adults, adults to children, and then sign sheet, 13 verses, and John 14 printed on yellow cardstock and hole-punched for a ring, “borrowed-words to-go”…
