Morning prayer

“Neither I nor the poets I love have found the keys to the kingdom of prayer,
And we cannot force God to stumble over us where we sit,
But
I know that it’s a good idea to sit anyway.
So every morning, I sit, I kneel, waiting,
making friends with the habit of listening,
hoping that I am being listened to. . .
There, I greet God and my own disorder.

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The legacy of a life

2021 is past, but it will never really be behind us.

Especially for those who lost loved ones in 2021.

Those lives – fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, friends – created ripples of joy and pain, hope and despair – as they battled health conditions, grappled with the twists and turns of circumstances, and faced a global pandemic.  They fought bravely.

As their loved ones now live with an ache that cannot be filled, the question remains, what is the legacy of a life?

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