. . . Even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me.
---LXX Psalm 138:10
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-Led, an Orthodox Christian