Wonder What The News Was

From the I Phone Notes again. This time there must of been something in the news but as I read it I realized it’s still true today and I’m still full of wonders about my life and the bits and pieces I’ve noted over the years with no rhyme or reason, only passion and hidden truths.

The trouble with the news these days is I keep seeing myself in the invisible background.

The children in the background are always there.

They will be adults in pain hurting and afraid but often they are the invisible underlying stories and today don’t even know there are dozens of women in Memphis overwhelmed by what’s happening in the news,lamenting.

They just know the only life they had or have.

That was me.

I wonder who was praying for a nameless child in 1979 or in 1989, a decade later when I was still that little girl in the back ground of end time signs, but for me it was just the next move and “new to me” Memphis neighborhood.

My family hopped around and in new neighborhood schools is where my abuse was happening in plain sight, between after school and before breakfast, but no one could see me.

I was easy to look away from after even after the neighborhood church bus drove away every Sunday at drop off.

Before Boarding Years Ago

Gritty draft from i phone notes. That seems to be my habit these days, going back and looking at the old things. So here’s some words about a lady that crossed the aisle at our gate to speak truth into a noticeably weary woman, me.

She made stern eye contact.

Stood and walked across the aisle

When someone crosses the aisle for me

Defenses melt

Hope happens

Anxiety confesses

Reaching around me she pulled me tight and whispered,

“Be a strong daughter

You are a safe mother

I am right here

Crying is important

Be still and listen”

Clearly she articulated

Gifts given

Mistakes made

Hope for the little girls with the look she saw in my eyes

You are good enough

Look at your pretty eyes darling

I mumbled with tears hot and salty,

“Thank you

I am a daughter lonely

A momma safe

Mostly hopeful this moment because you crossed the aisle”

Thank you

Embracing me she took my name and how to make sure she didn’t “lose” me

Told me which turn to take on roads so we could do some “really living”

Demanding practicality with her hope,

“Bring your own chair. I only have one and you will need to stay a while. I have things to tell you about living.”

She crossed the aisle for me

I will sit and listen