A Smaller & Deeper Practice for June

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I’ll join!

[Valerie MacMahon]

I'm joining!

[Linda]

I love this so much . When i bow to a tree it is a instant stress reliever. I love the Mary Oliver poem and i will say it every day for 30 days . It feels like a self blessing when i read it .

[Amy Hoppock]

“A self blessing!” I love that. May it be so…

[Korie]

Love this poem from Mary Oliver. Just reading it brings back memories of times in the forest - quiet, peaceful, fresh air times when all that mattered was the present moment and everything was taller, higher, greater than myself.

[Emily Dunevant]

Thank you for this!!! So many beautiful shifts in perspective. Just what I needed! I read a poem yesterday that will become my practice for June. I quoted it on my post yesterday but thought I would share here too in case others may love it as much as I do…

Ink by Steve Garnaas Holmes

God, I was trying to write you a prayer

but the ink leaked onto my fingers,

the words all over my hands,

and I tried to wipe them off

but I got the words all over me

and then whole sentences got smudged

onto everything around me,

onto the world and wouldn’t you know it,

there’s no more ink left in my pen,

and I think I’ve lost the prayer entirely,

except I keep seeing it

on every tree and wall and person and headline,

and even the streets are smeared with it,

and even the clouds at times seem

prayerfully inky, and at night—

well, all I see is the ink of my prayers.

But my thoughts

have no more words

so

Amen.

[Amy Hoppock]

I love the poem you selected Emily!! 💜

[Tara Penry]

I’m in! Great idea.

[Amy Hoppock]

I’m glad Tara! It’s so simple…and yet…

[Tara Penry]

Yes! And yet …. :-)