2 thoughts on “33rd Sunday a: Praying with Jesus”

1. Gloria November 20, 2017 at 3:09 pm

   How Do I Pray To You?

   How do I pray to you?

   You, whose sun makes the shadow I see
   across the golden brown cornfield
   look like the shadow of your strong arm?

   You, whose artistry I see in the vulture
   that circles gracefully on wind currents
   that make the huge pines sway?

   You, who blow the wind chimes into song
   and the windmill into a whirling blend
   of red and white, red and white, red and white?

   You, who created all the beauty
   I see through my kitchen window,
   a miniature of all your beautiful Creation?

   How do I pray to You?

   With gratitude!

   Gloria Ziemienski
   February 20, 2008

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2. Gloria November 20, 2017 at 11:47 pm

   33rd Sunday: “Praying With Jesus” Fr. Victor: “Jesus prayed in good times and bad…”
   This prayer/poem was written in a bad time, while I was sitting in shade on the porch,
   out of the sunshine, on that beautiful, sunny, summer afternoon.

   Free As a Bird

   Dear God,

   Lift my spirit up and away
   from its cold, sick body
   and send it high up into the top branches
   of the giant pine tree
   where the red-winged blackbirds
   swing and sway to the music of the wind
   and sing their wonderful summertime songs
   while my spirit watches and listens with delight

   Then send my spirit back down into its
   miserable earthly dwelling
   refreshed and renewed
   with the courage to continue on to my healing

   Gloria Ziemienski
   June 24, 2004

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