No need for your bended knee

Posted on | January 14, 2009 | 4 Comments

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. ~John Bunyan

I don’t tend to pray, at least not to a specific God, and not in a formal way. But I have been thinking a lot about my internal dialogue and how that ongoing conversation with myself is a sort of prayer, or a song about my life and that maybe–just maybe–I need to change the tune.

Doing this Grace in Small Things exercise is giving me some context for my thinking because it’s making me acknowledge five things, (almost) every day, that make my heart spark. Sometimes those things will pop into my head while I’m not at the computer writing, and when they do it feels as if the sky just cleared and the sun shone on me long enough to melt off some of the ice encasing me. In those moments, I’m aware of how negative my running monologue sounds and I wonder how much of that I let out into the world. I sure do complain a lot inside my head.

So here’s my prayer for myself: that I follow the thoughts more closely and help them turn around when they’re headed into a bad neighborhood. That I learn some new notes for my song and then learn to string them together.

I’ve seen this quote a dozen times in the last couple of weeks. It’s the perfect combination of words and they ring in my mind throughout the day.

Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering,
There’s a crack in everything,
That’s how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen

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This post is my contribution to the 52 Stories flickr group for week 2.

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