Sisters of the Earth Community

GREEN MOUNTAIN MONASTERY ~ THOMAS BERRY SANCTUARY

Prayer

I Don’t Know What a Prayer Is

 

                                               From the Summer Day by Mary Oliver

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life.

 

Sanctus

 

To Do Justice and Love Mercy and Walk Humbly with Your God

 

Cello Reflection by Eugene Friesen