Happy VDay. Thanks to friends as veggies.

[Guest guest]

Hi

I am sending this early so that anyone can cut and paste it into an informal

Valentine's Day email to friends. Or if you don't make that deadline, all next

week is Random Acts of Kindness Week.

I sent it out in print and on the appropriate farmers market/veggie

stationery over the holiday period and got a great favorable response.

Actually any kind of response is positive these days.

So here it is, I originally heard it as a litany in church. I go to a United

Church of Christ Congregational church. The message is non-denominational. (The

spiciness was never there!)

 

Let us give thanks…

For generous friends with hearts as big as pumpkins and smiles as bright as

blossoms;

For feisty friends as tart as apples;

For continuous friends, who like scallions and cucumbers, keep reminding us we

had them;

For crotchety friends, as sour as rhubarb and as indestructible;

For handsome friends, who are as gorgeous as eggplants and as elegant as a row

of corn – and the others, as plain as potatoes, and so good for us.

For funny friends, who are as silly as Brussels sprouts and as amusing as

Jerusalem artichokes, and serious friends as complex as cauliflowers and as

intricate as onions;

For friends a unpretentious as cabbages, as subtle as summer squash, as

persistent as parsley, as delightful as dill, as endless as zucchini, and

who-like parsnips-can be counted on to see you through the long winter;

For loving friends, who wind around us like tendrils, and hold us despite our

blights, wilts, and withering;

And finally, for those friends now gone, like gardens past, that have been

harvested – but who fed us in their times that we might have life thereafter;

For all these we give thanks. Amen.

 

 Sunny

[Guest guest]

Cute idea comparing people to veggies, although the metaphor was a bit forced

(like some greenhouse plants) here and there

 

It's a prayer, though No more prayers, please, dear people.

 

Best,

Pat