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Today is episode 173: Be Still

Hi friends. In this perfect spring season where everything is coming up and blooming and gorgeous, I think the blooms themselves are a testimony to God and so, I don’t have a long episode for you today, but I do have a poem from Mary Oliver that I’d love to read for you. It might help us frame our spring and how we can receive from God instead of always doing. The poem is called “Praying,” by Mary Oliver, and I hope it will help you to notice the incredible work God is doing in and around us, to let Him speak into it, and then to find a small way to express our thanks.

“Praying,” by Mary Oliver

It doesn’t have to be

the blue iris, it could be

weeds in a vacant lot, or a few

small stones; just

pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don’t try

to make them elaborate, this isn’t

a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which

another voice may speak.