This one wild and precious life

[Gabrielle Dean]

Father Ron’s sermon on Sunday gave us some beautiful insights into prayer. Here is the poet Mary Oliver’s perspective.

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 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?

Mary Oliver  (died 2019)

One of my favourite photos ever...