As I seek to develop the eco thinking of the last few posts around, I\u2019ve been playing with rewriting some circling prayers that try to pick-up the themes I\u2019ve been exploring.<\/p>\n
Forest Circling Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n I circle myself with the remembering of the forest, I relinquish my monologue at the edge of the canopy, I listen for the reply in the slowing of my pulse, Circle me, O Presence, As I seek to develop the eco thinking of the last few posts around, I\u2019ve been playing with rewriting some circling prayers that try to pick-up the themes I\u2019ve been exploring. Forest Circling Prayer I circle myself with the remembering … Continue reading
with the truth that I am not separate from this green breath.
I place my body among the bodies of trees,
my breath among the shared air of leaf and lung.<\/p>\n
letting my noise fall like deadwood to the floor.
I ask not with words alone but with attention
what have you seen, O ancient ones?<\/p>\n
in the quiet recognition rising from my bones,
that I too am ringed with memory,
that something in me remembers how to belong.<\/p>\n
not above me but within this living conversation.
Teach me to stand here as kin, not observer,
until deep calls to deep and we re known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"