Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
---Psalm 139:10
Lord, I thank you that Summer of Nineteen Seventy-six
was both a preparing forward and my past tenses' fix:
but I rejoice, foremost, that it was a preparation
for my awkward clumsiness to find make its destination
in the Faith of the Orthodox Church, that great congregation.
Starward, an Orthodox Christian