Prayer from Our Desert Mothers

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You formed us in your own image,
giving the whole world into our care. . . .

With our stillness and our silence,
we listen for the Voice
that speaks every particle of creation into being.¹

— Eucharistic Prayer D, The Book of Common Prayer
as found in The Desert Mothers:
Spiritual Practices from the Women of the Wilderness

Waves of the Ocean

[1] Mary C. Earle, The Desert Mothers:
Spiritual Practices from the Women of the Wilderness, (Morehouse Publishing, 2007), preface and p. 6 AX 6827