Each creature God made
Must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?
~ by Mechtild of Magdeburg
Let me seek, then, the gift of silence, and poverty, and solitude, where everything I touch is turned into a prayer: where the sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.