Light is All Around Me: Not Rachael Ray

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But this is what I’m finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way.

That thing I’m waiting for, for that adventure, that movie-score-worthy experience unfolding

gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and

apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and

secrets - this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience.

— Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life, 2010

Sunday, September 7, 2014

We had the missionaries here

for dinner just tonight.

Entertaining’s not my cup of tea,

but that’s alright—

I do my best to just say Yes

when called upon to serve.

“Weaknesses to Strengths” we’re told,

so I got all my nerve…
I made spareribs, and oh,

they looked right pretty in the pot.

We passed ‘em round, and – oh no!- found

that tasty they were not.

I’ve made that dish before, but this time

something has gone wrong.

There’s plenty o’ rib and plenty o’ sauce

but all the meat is gone!

I don’t know how that happened.

I watched those good men eat;

They took a bite, and froze, and then

pulled hard things from their teeth.

So thus we ate. Before they left,

the elders said a prayer,

gave thanks for hospitality

and kindness shown them there.

My son and I still sat there

when my husband took them home.

“Guess what?” I said, half-laughing—

“I just fed the elders bones.”

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