Weekly Reading

  I Pray to the Birds

I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward.  

I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin 

and end each day–the invocations and benedictions of Earth.  

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear.  

And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

~Terry Tempest Williams