- Veranita Alvord, Pastor

In recent group spiritual direction, we read intently, in Lectio Divina fashion, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 from the Message. In reflection through soul collage and writing, the Spirit focused my attention on these words:
There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth...
Is there an "opportune time?"
An opportune time~
Is it now?
Was it yesterday?
Will it be tomorrow?
OPPORTUNE - OPPORTUNITY
Bella Fortuna ~ Chicken of the Sea
Fortune- Where is mine?
Do I have it?
Has it docked in my port?
TREASURE. BURIED? FOUND?
FORTUNA --- Opportune ~ my ship sailed in?
~ or out to sea?
And then there's the tune--
Tune my heart to sing thy praise
take my boat, O take and seal it
for the seas beyond, above, below.
Prone to wander- port to port- I feel it-
Prone to leave the One I love.
A cruise liner~ a sailing vessel~ kayak~ canoe.
No. TINY ROW BOAT. BIG WIDE OCEAN.
Prone to wander- port to port- OPPORTUNE.
Rowing. Rowing.
Seeking a tune. A melody of~
Perhaps-
the notes played by the wind
a bird's song
the chewing of nuts
and the woodpecker's breakfast.
The trees- their fingers sway
the notes of the breath
the breeze of the One.
The One who,
at the Opportune time
rings the chime
whispers~
NOW. NOW. NOW.
It is now.
Opportune.
V. Alvord
April 14, 2018