My prayer in this morning during the Season of Creation is inspired by an Ojibway journalist, poet and author, Richard Wagamese (1955-2017). In his book of meditations called, EMBERS, he wrote the following:
ME: Why am I alive?
OLD WOMAN: Because everything else is.
ME: No. I mean the purpose.
OLD WOMAN: Thatbis the purpose. To learn about your relatives.
ME: My family?
OLD WOMAN: Yes. The moon, stars, rocks, trees, plants, water, insects, birds, mammals. Your whole family. Learn about that relationship. How you are moving through time and space together. That’s why you are alive.
ME: Why am I alive?
OLD WOMAN: Because everything else is.
ME: No. I mean the purpose.
OLD WOMAN: Thatbis the purpose. To learn about your relatives.
ME: My family?
OLD WOMAN: Yes. The moon, stars, rocks, trees, plants, water, insects, birds, mammals. Your whole family. Learn about that relationship. How you are moving through time and space together. That’s why you are alive.
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