Listening: What will you do?

6:20am

Sun up

Cars racing ….

Work…work….work

Left turn lane

Peripheral vision catches

Shopping carts

Pushed by

Two young? people

Hard to discern the ages

Winter clothes

Mismatched—

Carts full—

All their belongings?

Turning left

Holy Spirit talking?

“Tell me for *sure,* God.”

Minutes pass

Turns pass

“Ok, God.”

Glancing at clock:

6:25—Plenty

Of Time—

Going “around my elbow to get to my thumb”—

 

Backtracking—

“Where are they headed?” I wondered.

There---before the animal clinic—

I turn, get out—

“Excuse me, I think you need

This more than me.”

Look of hopelessness

Turns to gratitude:

A soft, “Thank you”

From her lips.

I return to my car.

They continue—Where?

I continue—

 

We continue

On our ways…

 

……………………………

Divine appointment

I almost missed..

I would have missed

If I had not been listening.

…………………………..

Where did they spend

The night?

Where were they going with

Two shopping carts of

Belongings?

 

When had they eaten?

Bathed?

Do they have summer clothes?

………………………….

That image will

Resonate with me—

A young couple

Trudging down

Trask Parkway

Past Chick fila,

Past Dunkin’ Donuts

Headed where?

Invisible to hundreds

 

Of single-focused

Commuters racing…

Racing….racing to

Get to work

…………………………..

How I bet this

Couple wished

They had jobs to

Rush to—

A car to rush in

Rather than being

Invisible to the masses

Who have tunnel

Vision, rushing, speeding

To work,

Oblivious to those

Around them.

…………………………

My one regret as

I drove off:  I forgot

To tell them it was

From Jesus; I hope

They know; maybe

He will tell them.