Day 13

I have never liked them

numbers

I watched a video

recently

some bright student had summarized

an entire economic plan

with a picture

pennies on a coffee table

this, I could understand

sometimes

I need to visualize

foreign symbols

as something concrete

thirty-three years

of life in skin

incarnation

four directions

four virtues

four seasons

four elements

four points

on a cross

seven days of a week

of creation

seven liturgical seasons

seven sacraments

a sacrament is a means of grace

I have never seen grace

in numbers

quantified, counted

grace is too big for that

I see grace in pictures

presently,

I feel grace

in the smooth jasper

I threaded onto a string

punctuated by dark pipes of bronze

conduits

for the movement of my fingers

the words of my prayers

the grace in my life