The Rainey Seasons

Have you ever wondered if, just beyond your reach,
there's another you, with a life not quite like yours?
Lena Rainey of Moorhens wonders this.
Lena, 41, stares into mirrors, thinking
that nothing feels quite right these days,
while another Lena, also of Moorhens,
died two years ago, aged 39.
And that's not all. That's far from all.
Before a week's out, the living Lena will have
a grown-up son instead of a grown-up daughter,
and no idea that they've been switched.
At Moorhens, nothing is predictable.
Alternatives are but a heartbeat away.
Look beyond the visible. Reality is different there.

Michael Lawrence is the senior pastor of Hinson Baptist Church in Portland, Oregon. You can find him on Twitter at @pdxtml.