‘Poem (prayer) for the week’ — “Rippling Earth”:
My making of magic—
welded words, simmering soups, moments of metaphorical music—
is costly work,
and deeply valuable.
But your work of sowing the universe with Spirit?
Of Christmas cactus blossoms
and sunsets striped with clouds?
Of tiny vessels behind my pupils
and glowing galaxies?
It is miraculous.
What a feat the world is!
What a ceaseless wonder that you hold together the cosmos
with such attention,
such beauty,
such love.
Self-donating,
self-expressing,
self-revealing God:
Thank you for your eternal incarnation,
fluttering in and enabling every moment.
Thank you for your own breath in me.
I am in awe of your magic.
Amen.
-- Emily Cash, Driftwood Prayers
