More than the Slightest Ways (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Words and thoughts may be only the slightest ways to pray.
Poetry
The One Recurring Response (Poem by Susan McBride Els)
All prayers– even the wild and savage ones– point to the one recurring response: Yes, its always love.
Lean on the Infinite (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Let all that and infinitely more surge through you. Let that govern your being. Let that sustain you through it all. Let that determine your destiny.
Breath (Poem by Luci Shaw)
When, in the cavern darkness, Jesus
opened his small, bleating mouth (even before his eyes widened to the supple world his lungs had sighed into being), did he intuit how hungrily the lungs gasp?
Advent Visitation (Poem by Lucy Shaw)
These still December mornings
I fancy I live in a clear envelope of angels like a cellophane womb. Or a soap bubble, the colors drifting, curling.
What Comes Next (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
Love relentlessly, she said, and I want to slip these two words into every cell in my body, not the sound of the words, but the truth of them…
God Knows What You Need (New Poem by Polly Castor)
God is a joiner, like a carpenter, splicing together mitered corners, with flush, beautiful transitions, meeting together just right.
Call to Action (New Poem by Polly Castor)
Let your feelings of inadequacy melt into adrenaline-charged obedience. Your convulsive little ego must not be given reign.
How to Write a Poem (Children’s Picture Book Review)
I was so excited by it, I thought you needed to know about it as well1
Collage of Light (Poem by Cecil Touchon)
We said, what if makin’ was like light itself,
Spreadin’ through the room, no shelf, no self.
You Can’t Grow Old (New Poem by Polly Castor)
The opposite of old is not young. The opposite of old is new.
Right Here (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
Not easy to hear the soft chant of my breath with the rumble of river nearby.
Morning Offering (Poem by John O’Donohue)
All that is eternal in me welcomes the wonder of this day…
