A Walk in the Woods by: Murray Bodo

A Walk in the Woods by: Murray Bodo in Song of the Sparrow
What is this prayer of fall? Mostly it rises from an emptiness caused by nature’s dying into winter. And in a sense this emptiness, this longing to live, is the beginning of all prayer. I walk into the bleak November woods and I want to believe that I am not alone, that this loneliness is illusion only. And so I reach out and call upon God and I am no longer alone. For there behind the wet, behind the black trees, behind my own feelings, is He who walked the same earth and entered into its dark soil only to rise again opening forever the dark recesses of the earth and of the heart of man. And I thank him and this too is prayer.