REVELSTOKE PSALM

REVELSTOKE PSALM (for Elizabeth Hallen and Wade Siebenthal)

Maturity means reaching out
While gathering within –
To share the heart with others while
Forsaking futile sin.

Great Aunt wants us to see the site
In Canada’s expanse –
A pilgrimage to where she learned
True love if not romance.

A wintry weathered mining man
Came here to face the fact
That what he needed was a life
Of sacred wedding pact.

One hundred years ago this fall
Is double jubilee –
So we will celebrate their vow –
Their anniversary.

(23 January 2011, Pleasant Grove, Utah)