Prayer of Attention

“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”― Karl Barth

“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?”
― Mary Oliver, House of Light

In spiral.
In staleness.
In routine.
Break the pattern.
Stillness.
Rest.
Wander.
Wonder.
Walk lightly.
Laugh, delight, play.
Reset.
Pay attention.
Be made new each day.

“there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.”― Mark Nepo, Finding Inner Courage