A favorite winter poem of mine is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. His poetry creates vivid images that bring you into the moment to share his journey on horseback through a winter wonderland.
Prayer is a means to love and welcome peace, but solitude and quietness are needed so that the serene presence of God's Spirit can be felt. Yesterday, this peaceful prayer about snowfall turned up in a daily devotional. I love the image of our prayers gently falling like snowflakes, quietly blanketing the land. Just the prayer needed for today...
Prayer is a state of being, like snowfall
At night.
As in the silence of yourself you pray,
All things particular, familiar, small
Or large, dissolve and slowly melt away.
Only the white perfection of your prayer
Is there, enveloping all things, until
The oneness of the One is everywhere.
Nothing remains the same--only still,
Only the peace of being, not so much
Filling space as obliterating space,
An emptiness and allness, like the touch
Of snowfall in the night upon your face.
But when your prayer ends and you rise and go,
Your world shines new around you, like
new snow.
--James Dillet Freeman
Love and peace,
Rae Karen
(angel photo:web)
