How I pray is breathe

Thomas Merton

What I wear is pants.
What I do is live.
How I pray is breathe...
Up here in the woods is seen the Word.
That is to say, the wind comes through
the trees and you breathe it.

~ from DAY OF A STRANGER by Thomas Merton

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Where Wisdom makes her home
peace and harmony abide
Suffering becomes redemptive
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Peace and harmony abide
radiating out to a wounded world
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within the dazzling darkness ...

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