Holy One,
give me grace
to reach out,
to seek you
in your usual
unlikely places:
the unfamiliar face,
the passing moment,
the fruitless interlude.
Deepen my trust
in the root beneath the snow,
the beckoning in the silence.
In the ordinary conversation
in the spaces between what isn’t spoken
you reach out with such a quiet hand.
The beautiful instrument,
you breathe through it,
it becomes my body.
The unsuspected pause
swells with your presence.
By your grace, I notice.
I notice again.
By your grace,
I notice.
—March 18, 2019