A Frozen Prayer – v2

A prayer hidden and silent

Stones submerged by winter’s blanket

Covered and cold beneath the grip of frost

Waiting for spring, for summer

If they could but speak of the wishes, the hopes,

Desires and fears uttered here

Frozen in the gossamer of time

Waiting for God’s answer

Wishes written on the footfalls and on the breezes

Of another moment, another season

Hearts open in the stillness of the walking

The mix of stones and soil, moss and grass under foot

Reverent periods of reflection

Between man and God

Cries heard in the silence beyond the field

Through the frozen prayers

Planted in this ground.

edited May 17, 2014

A Frozen Prayer – v2
1/4/06 11:00
A Frozen Prayer

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Written about the prayer labyrinth behind Bow Mills United Methodist Church, covered by two storms of snow. Not all of the stones are covered; but there are no footprints, only a set of snowshoes tracks around the field in which the labyrinth lies when I checked this morning.

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