This one comes from Mary Oliver. May it be “the quickening yeast” for our prayers and soul-keeping this week. Actually we could have a Mary Oliver festival as we receive “the merry month of May” !
We can let her open us into prayer which she describes as “mostly standing still and learning to be astonished”. We can have a conversation of what it is like to live a life that is “married to amazement”. Or we can write and post short prayers ourselves using the ordinary to take us deeper into our thirst for the Divine.
She describes to us how this way of praying might look like.
“It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak”. ―Mary Oliver
