April 30, 2015

UNSUNG MORNING PRAYER

Close those prayer books…. Close your eyes ….

Silent your tongue …. Open your ears ….

Listen carefully to that soothing

morning music playing and praying

in your own back yard - birds chirping,

birds sitting on branches - music birds

musing and watching the sun light move up

the bark of the backyard trees. Listen to

that morning music in the wood - in the woods.

Listen carefully …. Listen very carefully.

Be in on the morning bird chirping music

now sinking into the surrounding woods.

Know that trees remember music and

sweet sounds - music remembered in

that wood - and someday we’ll hear all

that sweet harmony that has been

embedded in this wood. Music that

slips and steps into the wood of

these church benches  - into violins - 
into wooden flutes. So ….

Close those prayer books ….

Close your eyes ….

Take into your being the sound of all

the breezes and all that music

remembered in the woods….

© Andy Costello Reflections 2015