Pause for Prayer: TUESDAY 10/1

 

A strange and ancient change in calendars

makes October our tenth month

though by name it would be eighth

- and so I wish it were -

for I would love to find and gain two months

for making up for what I've lost...

 

So,

it's the first of the tenth, not the eighth, today

and with that I must be content and know

that three months hence  

when 2025 arrives

this year will disappear,

a new one come 

and we shall call it

a beginning...

But what of this year's ending,

these last three months, these 90 days 

before we sing the auld lang syne -

what shall we make of this last quarter?

A time to marvel
at the hues of falling leaves, 

apples picked and 

chrysanthemums in bloom...

 

A time to pull on sweaters,
hats and gloves

to warm
against November's chill...

 

A time for bowing heads

and giving thanks
at tables blest
with family, friends and food...

 

A time for starry nights,
for pine bough wreaths 

upon our doors
and candles lit in vigil...

 

A time for holy days
of harvest, hope and spirits high
and prayers 

for what's ahead...

 

Enough, indeed, 

to fill three months,
these sacred 90 days,
the last of this year's burden...

 

So, on the first of this tenth month, Lord

bless the days and weeks ahead

to brace us for the winter,

for the advent of your grace: 

make peaceful this year's ending

and sweet the year ahead...

Amen.

 

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