Blueberry Stories – v3

A moment of panic

assuaged by the promise

of her dear pastor

the musing, the utterance

Oh, she’ll come back,

with “Blueberry Stories”

And she will, she told me

in hearing this story, this tale

of four-year-old fears

of losing their Pastor Lori

in the wilds of the Downeast

the wilds of Maine

Departing on the mission trip

only a day away

needing the assurance

of the faithful return

to still the trembling lip

the welling up of her eyes

this Sunday morning

Edited December 24, 2013

Blueberry Stories – v3

(editing original again)

Edited May 4, 2013

Blueberry Stories – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/05/blueberry-stories-v2.html

August 12, 2006 15:03

“Blueberry Stories”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/08/blueberry-stories.html

On the panic of our then 4 year old,

Shanequa, in the narthex of our church

the prospect of not seeing the Associate Pastor,

her beloved Pastor Lori,

for the week of the multi-generational

mission trip to be with the migrant workers

in downeast Maine, for the blueberry harvest

from Wesley United Methodist Church,

Concord, NH and from First United Methodist Church,

Hudson, MA to Jacksonville and Machias, ME

to the Down East Maine Mission,

Jacksonville United Methodist Campground,

East Machias, ME

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