“Let us give thanks for a bouquet of people….
For funny friends, silly as snapdragons,
And serious friends, complex as chrysanthemums.
For comfortable friends, their gentle presence as soothing as the sweet smell of lilacs.
For stormy weather friends, who stand by us in hard times, like lily of the valley that cannot be deterred by shade or shadow.” -Claire Feingold Thoryn
Do something as silly as snapdragons today.
SHARING-
A Harvest of People
by the Rev. Max Coots (1927-2009) who served UU congregations in Canton and Cortland, New York. He started his career as a Universalist minister in the 1950s, before the merger.
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“Let us give thanks for a bounty of people.
For children, who are our second planting, and though they grow like weeds and the wind too soon blows them away. May they remember fondly where their roots are.
For generous friends with hearts as big as hubbards, and smiles as bright as blossoms.
For feisty friends as tart as apples.
For continuous friends, who, like scallions and cucumbers, keep reminding us that we’ve had them.
For crotchety friends, as sour as rhubarb and as indestructible;
For funny friends, as silly as brussels sprouts And serious friends, as complex as cauliflowers and as intricate as onions.
For friends as unpretentious as cabbages and friends, like parsnips, who can be counted on to see you through the winter;
For old friends, nodding like sunflowers in the evening;
And young friends coming on as fast as radishes.
For loving friends, who wind around us like tendrils and hold us, despite our blights, and wilts, and witherings;
And, finally, for those friends now gone, but who fed us in their times so that we might live.
Let us give thanks for the bounty of people in our lives. Amen.