August Prayers | On Wonder
“The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy. ”
Now is a season for rest. And, as our minds and bodies rest, we hope they can move more freely toward wonder - that often illusive posture that brings us into child-like curiosity and expectation of our transcendent God imminent in all of creation.
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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