Written by the Rev. Maren Tirabassi:
(This photograph shows what my friend Nancy Donovan has created for a feral cat who has been coming to her porch for food and a safe place to sleep for a couple years. This cat cannot bear being indoors with the other cats or near a human. Nancy writes, “Every year I make her a winter house. I think this is the best yet. Wool blankets or old sweaters are the best insulation.”)
God, help me to give, not what I think is the best for others, but what they want. May I accept the “sleeping rough” expressed in different ways of those dear to me, and just make it a little softer, Give me the imagination to reboot an old cooler into a safe and warm place, giving from respect rather than my desire to be seen as generous, not needing to understand everything, give advice, or even Kondo the sock-drawer in someone else’s life. Give me the imagination to reboot an old cooler into a safe and warm place, and yet the wisdom to know another lost one battered by the winds of these times, needs to come inside and sit by my fire. amen.
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Maren C. Tirabassi’s newest, indeed brand new, book is “Christmas Eve at the Epsom Circle McDonald’s and Other Poems” and she blogs at http://giftsinopenands@wordpress.com/ She’s a UCC, US, pastor and a writer and lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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