A Prayer for Ordinary Time

Now that the Christmas/Epiphany season has officially ended with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, many sisters have commented that they will miss the warmth and cheer provided by our many decorations, especially the tree and wreath in the dining room and the creche in the Choir Chapel. However, as Sr. Mary Faith Schuster reminds us in the following poem, Ordinary Time also has much to commend it as we join God in living into a new year.

        A Prayer for Ordinary Time

             I look for something

        different to praise You with,

          something saints used

                and all I hear

      are birds in early morning,

                     all I see

           the sidewalks fringed

         with grass

           footsteps of rain at night

            feeling of sweet well-being.

            You are simple too; this chorus

            at dawn

            of all that’s good

            surrounds my soul

            and comforts me

           with sense of You

            at work

            smiling and singing

            and living,

            always living.