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Meadowlark
Sweet waking sound, the golden fleet
far-sounding across the field,
stirs me so to yearn for living,
praising the Primal Source
of such melodious meditations.
That voice, so sweet, sounds
like the dew sun-twinkling.
The neighborly sparrow-yammering
is pleasant peasantry all right,
and they are fit for parables,
offerings, and the delight of catnaps.
If their ending one-fall impinges
upon the conductor’s orchestration,
then You shall surpass and
sing the High Mass without knowing
such fatality, or mortal knavery.
Heralding of spring and autumn
done from the lone rampike at mid-morn
is overly sufficient for dove, robin,
finch, or blackbird with epaulettes.
Yours is the day-song long sung
in winter’s rememberings of milder days.
Sing then, Brother, and I will pray,
or pray, and I shall weep!
Such prosody is never mine,
such confidence lost by evil-knowing.
And you, O Christ, have known all this
since before simplicity left us.
Like a lark you heralded
and like a sparrow, passed.
But never sparrow nor even lark
could do as You, My Lord, have done:
Sparrow and lark, bird and note,
in You are raised, forever One.
Chick Todd was reared as a "Baptiterian" in Denver, Colorado and grew up to become an American Roman Catholic. After several years of feeling called to the Roman Catholic Church, I made my First Communion as a Catholic at Easter Vigil in 1969. That happy event was followed two weeks later with the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony with Crucita at Chapel 2 on Lackland AFB in San Antonio TX.
We are shown here at the celebration of our 50th Anniversary which included a renewal of our Vows. During those fifty years we have been Catechists, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Eucharist, Lectors, and the RCIA/C Coordinators for our Parish, St. Catherine of Alexandria Parish on the island of Kaua'i in Hawai'i.
When we married, we devoted our Marriage Vocation to establishing and maintaining a Christ-Centered Home. It still works that way today. The love we have shared with each other has been multiplied as we share it with others, especially our two adopted children, and all the children and adults we have helped catechize.
I have always been a serious Bible student and now run a blog called The Moon Beam Network at www.aloha-friday.org where I publish a weekly Catholic Bible study every Aloha Friday. Crucita is an exceptional Master Teacher, and so we find abundant opportunities to share our love of Word and Sacrament with many others. Come visit us at The Moon Beam Network. E komo mai!
