A Prayer and a Poem

A workday prayer in poem form:

Teach me work that honors Thy work,

the true economies of goods and words,

to make my arts compatible

with the songs of the local birds.

 

Teach me patience beyond work –

and, beyond patience, the blest

Sabbath of Thy unresting love

which lights all things and gives rest.

- Wendell Berry, “Sabbath Poem X” (2002)