MAKE YOUR LIFE A PRAYER

(a sunflower to brighten up a winter day)

 

MAKING ALL OF LIFE A PRAYER:

Make of your life an offering!

Make of your life a prayer!

....be awake to the Life

that is loving you and

sing your prayer, laugh your prayer,

dance your prayer, run

and weep and sweat your prayer,

sleep your prayer, eat your prayer,

paint, sculpt, hammer and read your prayer,

sweep, dig, rake, drive and hoe your prayer,

garden and farm and build and clean your prayer,

wash, iron, vacuum, sew, embroider and pickle your prayer,

compute, touch, bend and fold but never delete

or mutilate your prayer.

Learn and play your prayer,

work and rest your prayer,

fast and feast your prayer,

argue, talk, whisper, listen and shout your prayer,

groan and moan and spit and sneeze your prayer,

swim and hunt and cook your prayer,

digest and become your prayer,

release and recover your prayer,

breathe your prayer,

be your prayer.

(by  Alla Renee Bozarth   on  p. xxiii  of LIFE PRAYERS, published by Harper One, edited by Roberts & Amidon)