If love is a blue-berry pie

to be given to all your neighbors

and friends and family:

what in the heck do you do

when all of the pie is gone-

 

except go around to all the

places you can think of, to

ask for another Blue-berry-Love pie.

 

Well, at the New Year, that’s what I did

Only I decided to

Look for love in all the most unexpected of places,

and to ask for it with boldness

And courage and pure honesty and truth.

 

I was not too thrilled when I only received

A few slivers of pie that added up to less

Than even a modest piece, quite frankly:

And I kind of belly-ached (no pun intended).

 

Now, months later once Lent came around I knew I’d have to

Give up something significant, so I decided, well,

To give up belly-aching

 

Only that created

A kind silence, a void to be filled;

 

So I began Celebrating:

Every little morsel of those

Pie slivers, as if each bite

were a pie in and of Itself.

 

That’s when the love began filling me up inside

Like the best home-made blueberry pie you’ve

Ever tasted, a little piece of heaven.

 

This is what Lent can do:

It can give us the opportunity to celebrate

Every sliver and morsel of life:

Giving up a little somethin’, in order to receive somethin’ more,

 

The Light of God, the splicing of a Ray,

that shines in us, through us, around us

 

The Sweetest of Gifts:  An Electric Celebration.

-Shared by Greg Wood