Thursday, November 20, 2008

Prayer in a new place

We left within days of our return from Italy for Florida where for the first time we plan to spend the winter. The cold is getting difficult to handle living in a remote area and alone much of the time as my husband travels.

Here I have no special place to meditate as I do on Lake Superior. Daily I find myself moving to a different location -- a different side of a room, a different room, trying to find a place that feels right.

Waking around 3:30 most mornings I've tried to meditate in bed but always end up rising. I have a prayer shawl which has become my "place." I wrap it round me and feel silence envelope me.
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3 comments:

Stratoz said...

hmmm, I rarely rave far from home and it is snowing outside. guess I'll just practice being covetous for a bit.

I love how the shawl creates a place.

November 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM
Sheila Deeth said...

A friend of mine gave me a prayer shawl a few years ago. It is my prayer companion, reminding me of the presence and prayers of others.

November 20, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Anonymous said...

Hmmm, too. Someone made me a prayer shawl, but I've always considered it ceremonial, and so I've never had occasion to use it. It's lovely.

Hmmm. Thanks.

November 26, 2008 at 3:33 AM

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Beryl is the author of The Scent of God: A Memoir published by Counterpoint NY in 2006 and A View of the Lake published by Lake Superior Port Cities Inc. in 2001. She’s been living on Lake Superior for seventeen wonderful years, and spent 10 years writing two popular columns for the Cook County News Herald: Newcomer Notes and Putting Down Roots. Beryl is past president of the Schroeder Area Historical Society and a long-time chair of its Oral History and Marketing committees. She is a past board member of the Violence Prevention Center in Grand Marais and committee member for the Grand Marais Art Colony’s first ever annual North Shore Reader and Writers Festival. She’s been published in the Sun Magazine, Minnesota Monthly, Lake Superior Magazine, and The Trenton Times and in the anthologies, Surviving Ophelia published by Perseus Publications in 2001 and The New Writer's Handbook, Vol. 2, published by Scarletta Press in 2008 and was named Best of Minnesota Writers by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She is currently working on her third memoir: the sequel to The Scent of God.