On behalf of Jeremiah's "meantime"

Dear Lord, 

Fishing season is over
and Jeremiah finds himself upside down,
set aside,

aground in feelings of worthlessness.

Oh, that he could know
spring will come again

and the waters he loves

will welcome him 
back.

Help him see that “meantimes” 
come to everyone 
and the way he handles his
will be an example
to those he loves
and those he might never
meet.

Remind him 
that he is beautiful

and assure him 

that his present circumstance
can take nothing 
from his core.

Please grant him hope
in the spring not yet visible

where patience and compassion

like flowers

bloom full.

Amen




"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own' or 'real' life.  The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life--the life God is sending one day by day."   ~C.S. Lewis