Pause for Prayer: TUESDAY 6/22

    Photo by CP

Around 3:00 a.m., Lord,

there gathers under my bedroom windows

a grand chorus of birds of all kinds,

greeting the day's first light,

sharing the latest news,

warming up for their sunrise concert,

chirping a prayerful  good morning

to any awake to hear...

No complaints here, Lord - 

I love the different calls, tweets and songs

and they're never enough to keep me

from falling back to sleep again...

By the time I rise, just a few are still chattering 

and more often than not, a small schola of mourning doves 

is chanting its grief, singing its sorrow,

praying for your compassion...

Then early last evening, 

as I walked down Lexington,

a solo performer, last on the bill, 

took center stage

and crooned a lovely evening tune,

a vesper song of praise and thanks

for all this day had been

and had not been...

I stopped to listen, Lord,

and knew that you were listening, too,

for every warble, chirrup, trill and coo

my winged friends might offer

from dawn to end of day...

And I took comfort, Lord, in knowing

that you listen just as closely

to every sound and song that rises

from my heart, in prayer, 

to you...

Amen.

 

 

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