Yeah?

So what?

So I pray!

I’m a believer, so I pray!

I’m a sinner, so I pray!

Usually during my morning shower.

You know,

“Showers of blessings! / Showers of blessings we need!? Mercy drops round us are falling,/ but for the showers we plead!”

So, I pray.

But this afternoon,

on this first warming day

of late winter-springs arrival,

sitting on our screened back porch in the suns shine,

I was TRYING to pray

but it wasn’t the soft shower I am used to.

The racket of the wind through the pine needles,

the deep throated clanging gongs

of the chimes hanging from the ceiling,

the competitive chorus of the early arrival robins,

noisy in the trees

orchestrated such a cacophony ,

that, try as I might,

I couldn’t get a word-in, prayer-wise…

Then, just as I was about to start an irritated complaint

to our Mother-Father God in heaven,

“BAM!!!”

A revelation.

“Oh,” I whispered…

So I shut-up.

And listened.

They certainly had a lot to say.

I’ll have to remember to shut up

more often…

every day…

Amen.