Getting Accustomed

Getting Accustomed

I remember when we moved in together.
As much as we loved each other,
it took time for us to get accustomed to living together.
Life is filled with seasons
of getting accustomed to
people,
places, and
situations.
Like those moments
you walk into a dark room
and your eyes get accustomed to
the darkness and then you begin to see
the beauty and surroundings
you could not see before.
It is in these moments that I see
God in the darkness and the treasures
I have not yet begun to see.
Sometimes we have to get accustomed
just so we can survive.
I grieve as I watch my son
get accustomed to being in jail.
In this darkness,
I find myself becoming accustomed
to being the mother of a child
I no longer know or recognize.
I am becoming accustomed to
the arms of the Ultimate
who comforts me as I grieve and
seek how to keep us all able to see
the light in the darkness of
the jail system.
The one who encourages me to
get accustomed to modeling love and beauty
in the midst of my son’s darkness
and never becoming it,
but getting accustomed to being,
to always being,
the light in the darkness
and at the same time giving thanks
for all the harsh realities
I have never had to
get accustomed to myself.

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University

University

Throughout my academic career,
there were courses that I wanted to take
and those I dreaded.
They were usually the mandatory requirements,
those courses everyone had to take whether you wanted to or not.
Whether I wanted to take them or not,
I had to and
whether I wanted to take them or not,
I ultimately wound up learning from them
and in the long run being grateful for what I learned.
Sometimes life is like that as well.
We wind up having to deal with difficult people and
go through difficult experiences
which are the mandatory faculty and courses
in the university of life.
I am enrolled,
even as I write this,
and as much as I would rather not be enrolled,
I am.
I may not want to be here,
as I have not wanted to take similar courses in the past,
but I know this much to be true.
I will learn powerful lessons for my journey,
that are taught only in this way
and through teachers like this.
How challenging it must be to be the teacher
nobody wants to take,
but show up and teach the material
which you know they will need to learn in life.
What would I be, had I not been enrolled
in those mandatory courses at the university of life.

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