Receiving

Eternal Father, it is by your gift that we praise you:

  the wonder of our making is only surpassed by the splendour and joy of our coming to life in Christ.

– We adore you, our Lord and God.

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All day

 this joy

hooking my dark

state,

crocheting peace

into shawls

enfolding me.

All day

the light speaking

in its bright tongue

through the folds of fields

and crowded tree lines

like an absolution

over all that is inspiring

and expiring,

the deaf dark

and the sanctuaries of

shade.

All day

the bright given

constancy

arriving
on the shoulders of summer

in the myriad

opening,

receiving

like the green

gloves of leaves

and hymns

of lilies

on ponds

of the air;

like the grace

of the Eucharist

onto the dying palms

of the living.