morning prayer

   Morning Prayer

Morning prayers are best said

in the water, belly up,

facing the rising sun,

and immersed in the

renewing feel of the font

with your ears submerged

so that everything you say

is magnified, flying straight up

to be heard by all the trees

and the mountains

and to be carried away on the wind

by the ravens and the gulls

for the rest of the world.

-Thomas Ryan 

I thought the prayer above was simply beautiful... 

thinking of you all this morning and giving thanks for you all... 

(and some fun smiles from our running crew this morning... 

(I loved it when I was running next to Lorissa and she asked, "Does anyone know how Elizabeth Hutchinson is doing?" I love it when I get to have my claim to fame that we consider you all our best friends and I can chime in when someone asks about you....)