Multitudes on a Monday

Counting the multitudes on a Monday... the best way to begin a week!



1026. It had been too long since I stretched out and watched leaves dance.
Lures on the ends of twigs, bobbing in blue, they caught me and I floated.



1027. In early morning still, our words unfurled at water's edge over glasses of orange juice, a long conversation blooming a delicate memory.



1028. When he slammed it over the fence, I squealed louder than the kids, and we all wildly cheer him in over home plate. I feel eighteen again when he flashes that grin.




1029. He's always wanted to fly. Come summer, he takes to the sky. The heights are his and he skims the trees.



1030. I remember when we picked dandelions in the ditches together. Now little brother's man hands picks me a bouquet of scarlet from his rhubarb patch, sends me home to arrange a pie.




1031. It was like Christmas in June, all green and red, a pile of love.



1032. The oldest boy-man cut and carried it in, his muscles hauling in spinach, to me all smiling. He asked if I could make that chicken salad, the one he said he could eat every night of the week, and I happily obliged.




1033. You careened into summer, crashed into me with laughter. It was the happiest of accidents.



It took months, days of months of paying attention, feeling the caress of His heart, to number 1000 gifts. The intimacy of the counting changed me. I knew Him, the way only skin can know SomeOne.

And then, after the 1000 gift milestone, I simply began to record the gifts as endless, innumerable .... but He, he never stopped the numbering, having more thoughts for me than the sand on the seashore. He numbers even each strand of hair on my head, again and again...

So could I not feebly try to number even some of the gifts with which He woos?

So I return to the numbering. These, a few of the multitudes on a Monday....

"With the voice of joy and thanksgiving,
a multitude keeping festival..."

~Ps.42:4

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