Sometimes, praying is releasing our pent-up, used-up life and making room in ourselves for new life.
—Terri Guillemets
prayer
At two-fifty-nine
Prayer to the middle-of-the-night gods:
please let me sleep
thank you for the beautiful moon
and winter silence
but please let me fall back to sleep—
no offense.
Amen.
—Terri Guillemets
Emanate
You don’t always have to pray for something, or to someone — you can just, simply, pray.
—Terri Guillemets
None excluded
Prayer is for the grateful and for the grateful-to-be.
—Terri Guillemets
Whole body, whole spirit
We thank on our knees
with folded hands
for full bellies
and fuller hearts.
—Terri Guillemets
Breakfast prayer
And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen.
—Terri Guillemets
Morning routine
Breathe, thank, pray, rise, stretch, move, live!
—Terri Guillemets
The chaos-harmony of life
I swing like a kid
and fall like an adult;
cry tears of gratitude
and pray in smiles;
hug and love, and later
hide under the covers;
wildly and humbly living
from dawn to the stars,
and ever back again.
—Terri Guillemets
A lonely pen at night
Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your prayer.
—Terri Guillemets
Jane & the sun
Sometimes prayers collide and miracles are born.
—Terri Guillemets