Category: Prayer and Worship
A Stranger Here: Receiving the World as Gift
A Salutation for Creation Thomas Traherne begins with astonishment: From Dust I rise,And out of Nothing now awake,These brighter Regions which salute mine Eys,A Gift from GOD I take,The Earth, the Seas, the Light, the Day,The Skies,The Sun and Stars are mine; if those I prize… A Stranger hereStrange ThingsRead more…
Prayer in the Garden
A garden does not need to become a chapel in order to become a place of prayer. It already has much of what prayer needs. Silence. Attention. Waiting. Repetition. Dependence. Beauty. Frustration. Growth we cannot control. Work we can offer. Life we can receive. Prayer in the garden is notRead more…
God Is the Gardener
I had been thinking about setting aside time to garden with God. In my mind, that meant doing ordinary garden work prayerfully: potting up seedlings, pruning, watering, weeding, noticing what was growing, and inviting God into the rhythm of it. Then my dear sister in Christ Wilma said something thatRead more…