Prayer : Ripples

Jennifer Wallace

Prayer : Ripples

Oh Lord,
give me the soft ripples of lake water
as it fans out from the mallard’s quiet paddling feet.
Afford me the shimmer and shake of its soft brokenness.
And the healing and re-healing. To become whole again
after splitting open, because if creation’s pattern
is duplicated, then what I see on the lake
happens also in me and I am comforted.

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Jennifer Wallace
Poet

Jennifer is an author of Almost Entirely published by Paraclete Press

Photography by Raffo Perez