The “Our Father,” 

The “Lord’s Prayer,” 

“The words that Jesus taught us to pray.”

They have been prayed

Millions,

And millions,

And millions of times.

I love the liturgy.

I recent years and months,

I have forgotten just how much I love the liturgy.

I am drawn to women’s stories –
in their own voices,
about their own lives,
telling their own experiences.

But, when finally, I learn the ring-ness of human things, how rhythms pulled away aren’t left behind at all. I know I walk in shoes that are not mine.

Mary Jo Robinson writes poetry that illuminates how the sacred may be found in ordinary nature.