Life Preserver

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father. - Thoreau

i remember all the car rides back and forth in the back seat of the old, baby-blue ford

to church with screaming, colored windows and hard wooden pews along with up and down kneelers

little did i realize how important that good news and those fond memories would ever be

in rescuing the lost likes of me

Author's Note

"A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it." - Thoreau