PRIMS Magazine submission

I belong to a doll group that is doing a group submission to Prims Magazine Storybook Doll Issue.  If you don't recognize this frilly fellow...He is Humpty Dumpty.   He ended up looking sort of like a drag queen.    I'm not a planner so I never know how my dolls will look in the end.  I have to say I was really surprised to see the picture of him.  That's when I realized he was a bit girlie...

 

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On

The Innocence Mission

We ride our bikes
around the circle in the cemetery,
weaving.
I wave up to You on the Cross.
Am I to come upon You suddenly like this forever?
Happy, relieved that You are here
and I can see You, I can feel You?


You are like the ticket-half
I find inside the pocket of
my old leaf-raking coat.
There all the time, all the while,
forgotten.
I so often seem to leave You
in churches
and other islands.
And on my beads
where I can see You, I can feel You.


I take the ticket-half
and put it on the table, saying,
This is God
and He's here through my comings
and my goings.
But I walk past the ticket-half,
I walk past the ticket-half.
I walk past the ticket-half
just as I've walked past the Cross on our wall.


Our self-importance grows so dazzling we don't see
You.
But Gentle Jesus, aren't You always,
aren't You every hour here?