Today I am grateful,
- When a door slammed in anger, I did not do the slamming
- Finally the ice breaks: A co-worker spoke to me, three years there and this is the first time
- for gloves on teen-aged hands
- for tiny hammers breaking china for an art project
- for Students Shivani and Noor, who tentatively, then with growing confidence, used the hammers to break the china
- for a girls’ chorus of crack-laugh-break-giggle-as the chipped china became repurposed
- for the huge smile of joy on Shivani’s face when she announced, “all done”
- For God, who never tires of giving us new experiences to break our china patterns of routine
- For God, who repurposes our broken pieces into new vessels of beauty.
“I am indebted to no man and to only one woman, my dear wife.” Gerald Ford, commenting on his wife, Betty. rip