Opening

September 9, 2013

Opening. A poem in honor of September 2013

Rainbow Mennonite Church

September Two Thousand and thirteen.

A month of anticipation and expectation.

Thirty days of reflection;

four weeks of preparation.

A time to lay down the marker stones;

to leave the cairns that mark each turn gone before

of all the paths already traveled

to leave those markers of where we were

and move to where we will be.

To move through yet another gate and

having shut the others,

to reach to turn the handles yet

to come to us.

It is the act of turning the handles

to open the gates

that brings us a new wave of air,

a new light with a new view.

We see new shapes

created by new light.

Light. Shadows. Air.

all coming together to draw us forward.

Seeing a new vista but always

Opening.