Doing Wordle today
I had the I and A
Three spaces left and one was L
What it was I could not tell
Does the L go here or there?
I needed an answer to my prayer
In fact the truth turned out to be
L was needed there and here
And then the word was very clear
LILAC was the completed word
And there a life lesson was heard
To find the answer that you seek
Seek the right question
That’s the trick
I asked is it here or there
I ought to have asked is it here AND there
Once the question is posed aright
The happy answer comes in sight
Of course life’s problems and issues can be so complicated that we find it impossible to ask the right question of ourselves. We need the help of another person in conversation to help us to unravel our issues. Our issues can be like string or ropes that are all mixed together and they take some untying. Pope Francis has a devotion to Our Lady as the ‘Untier of knots’. It is a good image of how our complex stories need to be untied and so set free. A good counsellor is a person who knows how to ask us the right questions, the questions that we might never ask ourselves. It is those right questions that pave the way to our freedom.
Brian Fahy
3 July 2022
Erris Poetry 