This week I went to Washington, DC with a group from the Transportation Equity Network. Our goal was to encourage some of our national leaders to begin to embrace a vision of transportation that values public transit both as an issue of justice and as a way of increasing a sense of community in our society. During the process, I thought a lot about how our journeys of faith involve a continuous movement between doing and being-the journey outward and the journey inward. On the way home, I wrote this poem about prayer.

To pray is to reach

            Into yourself

            And touch the center

            And rest.

To pray is to reach

            Out to God

            Wherever God lives

            And listens.

To pray is to reach

            Into your memory

            And embrace healing

            And celebrate life.

To pray is to reach

            Out to others

            For their growth

            And your salvation.

To pray is to reach

            To risk

            And not to reach

            At all.

To pray is to be

            On a journey

            And remain

            At home.

To pray is to laugh in pain

            And cry in joy

            And change the world

            Through weakness.

To pray is to give

            Life to God

            And receive it

            Back again.

Thanks for continuing to bless me as we journey together.
  
Jack Price

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