“This prayer is a reminder that while God is the almighty king of creation, this is not the relationship we are appealing to – we are appealing to a parent who wants what is best for us and who will give us good things” –Michael Jay, Fruit of the Vine

Query: What is the state or quality of your relationship with God?

I walked into the woods

Laid down beneath the trees

And rested my hands on the moss

I let the sun settle

And waited

Until the wild rabbits

Came out of the hedge

Until my ears cleared

And the silence of the forest

Spread across the ground

I waited

There on the edge of something new

Until the birds began to sing again

Until I began to believe

There was time enough

For all of it

And I breathed in the sweetness

Of crushed mint and wild blackberries

–Bethany Lee, The Breath Between