So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars. Let us listen to the sound of breath in our bodies. Let us listen to the sounds of our own voices, of our own names, of our own fears. Let us name the harsh light and the soft darkness that surround us. Let’s claw ourselves out from the graves we’ve dug, let’s lick the earth from our fingers. Let us look up, and out, and around. The world is big, and wide, and wild and wonderful and wicked, and our lives are murky, magnificent, malleable and full of meaning. Oremus. Let us pray. — from Pádraig Ó Tuama, from, _Daily Prayer With the Corrymeela Community
I’ve been following Tuama’s substack, Poetry Unbound, for a little while. His posts resonate with me, so I decided to buy one of his books. This is a daily prayer book. The above quote is from the intro, which describes the Corrymeela Community and what the format of the book will be. The prayers themselves are very short but very powerful, the kind that set a prompt to think about where you can take it from there to personalize to your situation. There are also set morning, afternoon, and evening prayers that I think the community prays together each day. At the end there are multiple prayers for specific situations. I’m just about done with the first read-through, but this is a book to keep within reach, meant to be read again and again.
I highly recommend the substack and this small titan of a book.
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Beautiful cover art. It reminds me of the cover of The Startup Wife.
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Gia, it surely is. Makes me want to go there.
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I love this prayer. I may use it at a meeting of a mentoring group I belong to. Thank you for sharing it. I can see why the book appealed to you, Lisa.
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Steve it’s a good one. Brought tears to my eyes.
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I can see why. It’s wonderful.
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That’s a wonderful prayer and the cover of the book is gorgeous. Thanks for the recommendation. (K)
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K, they both got to me. Makes me want to visit there to see them in action. You are welcome.
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I love his work and I have that book too. His work in Ireland and his personal story is amazing.
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Paul, so happy you are familiar with him. Cool that you have this gem of a book. Would love to know more about him. Will do some research…
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Love that Daily Prayer…it pretty much sums everything up….
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Yes it does <3
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Well thank you…it was wonderful to read today.
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You are welcome. It brought me to tears when I read it.
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It gave me a smile…there is wonderful and wicked…and that is the world in a nut shell.
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:)
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awesome Li I’ll definitely check it out! Xo
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:)
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