​Prayer Garden Open

Drop in and enjoy the garden
sit, slow down, quieten, pray
soak up the peace and beauty ...
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The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry
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When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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​Image by Charlotte Ager, © All Rights Reserved

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The Bible is an Outdoor Book ...
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​"I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a “hypaethral book,” such as Thoreau talked about—a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better."

—Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community (New York: Pantheon, 1993), 103.
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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.
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Image from mindfulness bell.org

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