BLUEBERRIES AND DESIRE--EL DESEO Y ANORANZA

AFTER ALL YOU'VE DONE

So many people to thank.

So many whys for gratefulness.

Even with snow melt and flooding.

I've been without blueberries

on my cereal for two weeks.

There's no place to hang up my phone,

but that's not really doing without.

It's Lent. I'm going to try

for the whole 40 days

without blueberries.

Don't worry.

Jim Bodeen

14 March 2017

SETTING OUT TO ACCOMPANY MIGRANT MINORS

DISCOVERING INSTEAD, HOW MIGRANT MINORS

ACCOMPANY OTHERS DURING THE LENTEN JOURNEY

"Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice...

"No le niegues sus derechos al extranjero...

            Deuteronomio/Deuteronomy 24: 17

Having been uncertain of fathers

most all my life, a father came to be

what I wanted most to know.

That's how I started out, walking.

I found myself with others,

mostly women and children.

Not having anything to say,

I listened. Escuchaba, ¿Sabe?

Mostly, they told me what happened.

Mostly, it all sounded true.

What really hit home,

they sounded like what I felt.

This longing..la gran añoranza--el deseo.

Es para El Señor, no? To know a father's love?

Jim Bodeen

14 March 2017