We both love a little dog
I cannot pray or say so accurately and eloquently as Lee van Laer, so I borrow from him again today, from the Morning Five.
“ I do not say here, "I wish to have being."
For I do have being, as all creatures do. It is a gift given to me as a precious substance in order that I may live and be, and to gather myself into a more concentrated expression of the goodness that the planet and the sun and all of creation need in order to exist.
And so I enter into this fundament of relationship. The breath fills me. Sensation draws its being from the breath. And I begin to enter the stillness of the Great Prayer. And on the threshold of this sacred place I say, Lord have mercy for I sense I have been brought to the edge of a mystery so great that I will never fathom it; and yet still, in my own unknowing, this great mystery, the Great Prayer, calls to me, inviting me to be, to attend, to participate in a small taste of the glory, which is everlasting. And although I can only ever hear the echo of the Great Prayer within me, it fills me with a longing for truth and love and life itself. I somehow wish to join its song even though I know not the music to it. Still, I will sing. This is the song of stillness, the song of silence. I am called to the song of love, the song of goodness. And here, within this place now, is where my soul comes to rest in order to begin the day.
