OREMUS
“So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars. Let us listen to the sound of breath in our bodies. Let us listen to the sounds of our own voices, of our own names, of our own fears. Let us claw ourselves out from the graves we’ve dug. Let’s lick the earth from our fingers. Let us look up and out and around. The world is big and wide and wild and wonderful and wicked , and our lives are murky, magnificent, malleable and full of meaning. Oremus. Let us pray.”
Poem by Pádraig Ó Tuama
REFLECTION:
- What struggles (stones) do you need to confront?
- What altar (something positive) can you make with the stones?
- How can mindfulness, self-awareness and overcoming adversity help you look up and out and around to a new perspective?