Prayer at Zdíkov (11 July 2018)

To the Great I Am – Just as your being everywhere is mirrored in the grasses that cover this field, this Czech countryside, this globe, just as your strength is like but far greater than that of the trees that surround this field and fill the forests of Šumava, just as your spirit is felt in the winds that tumble the flowers among the grasses and the leaves in the trees, just so are your being and strength and spirit among us, your loved human beings, here on this field in Zdíkov, Czech Republic, Europe, Earth.

Many of us here know you no better than we know the grass and trees and the winds pushed along by distant storms. Many of us understand you in word alone, as we might understand what we read in textbooks about agrostology and dendrology and anemology.* But regardless of what we see and feel and know and understand, you are here in these things that surround us. You are here in us – in all of us. You are all.

Amen.

 

*I knew the second of these terms via research done on my in-progress short story “The Witness Tree.” I google-found the other two. The three are, in order, the study of grasses, the study of trees, and the study of winds.