Thursday, September 15, 2011

She Is Always Talking With God

She gets a certain look in her eye,
or maybe the pace of her breathing changes.
These are the times spent
deep in prayer
Is there another like her?
One standing in the gap,
ready at a moment's notice
to intercede for others?
Always I've wanted to know
the practice of fervent prayer
of the truly consecrated to prayer
and now I do.
Talking with her about her prayer life
face is both joyful and sad
her thinking of talking with Father
but also of those not noticing how
With so many teachings and tools
at our beckon call
we have dulled the miracle
that is ours to freely partake in
God wants to have conversation with us
and how do we behave?
As if prayer was a chore or stale milk
Shame on us. Blessings to the prayer warriors

2 Comments:

At September 17, 2011 at 10:24 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree. Angela is fabulous in the art of prayer and I wish I could live around it to be inspired more often myself. Love the "breathing" observation. I had another friend/mentor, Anne, who prayed out loud about anything, anytime. Hey, Mike, you do know our last name is tee, not tree. Beautiful poem.
-Leanne

 
At September 18, 2011 at 3:37 AM , Anonymous Mike Sansone said...

Hi Leanne - I love watching and hearing (and participating in) spontaneous prayer. Thanks for sharing. Yes on the THYE, though TREE is a short version of TREE-mendously - so I would often say "I love you Tree" as a shortened version of "I love you tremendously" "TREE" grew roots

 

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