WORDS FOR WEDNESDAY (ON THURSDAY) - 12-23-2021

 

Prompts for December provided by Elephant's Child

This Week's Prompts are:

Bird

Lifetime

Impossible

Days

Dreams

Meet

and/or

Spider

Thread

Secret

Thing

Author

Recesses

WAITING by Granny Annie

I put up the bird feeder and waited. It was filled to the brim and in my dreams I imagined the cardinals, sparrows and chickadees meeting as they selected their treats. Several days of waiting felt like a lifetime. I believed it was impossible that they would ever return.

Waiting for the birds to appear made me dig into the deep recesses of my brain. What had happened to the author of stories on Faith that I had once been? It is Christmas time, yet I could not feel the thread of joy that had once filled my childhood. What is the secret that caused this dismissal?  What made my heart seem an empty thing. Was there a wicked spider crawling inside me that rejoiced in my doubt?

There was movement outside my kitchen window. I paused to see birds dancing and flitting around the feeder. They had come back! I opened the storage closet and began getting down the Christmas decorations as comfort and joy filled me and music filled the air.