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1 " Creed by Abigail Carroll, p.196-197I believe in the life of the word,the diplomacy of food. I believe in salt-thickancient seas and the absoluteness of blue.A poem is an ark, a suitcase in which to packthe universe—I believe in the universalityof art, of human thirstfor a place. I believe in Adam's workof naming breath and weather—all mannerof wind and stillness, humidityand heat. I believe in the audacityof light, the patience of cedars,the innocence of weeds. I believein apologies, soliloquies, speakingin tongues; the underwateroperas of whales, the secretprayer rituals of bees. As for miracles—the perfection of cells, the integrityof wings—I believe. Bonesknow the dust from which they come;all music spins through space on justa breath. I believe in that grand economyof love that counts the tiny deathof every fern and white-tailed fox.I believe in the healing ministryof phlox, the holy brokenness of saints,the fortuity of faults—of makingand then redeeming mistakes. Who daresbrush off the auguries of a storm, disdainthe lilting eulogies of the moon? To danceis nothing less than an act of faithin what the prophets sang. I believein the genius of children and the goodnessof sleep, the eternal impulse to create. For loveof God and the human race, I believein the elegance of insects, the imminenceof winter, the free enterprise of grace. "
― Sarah Arthur , Between Midnight and Dawn: A Literary Guide to Prayer for Lent, Holy Week, and Eastertide