Hello to you all, I say, as the sun rises above the chimneys of North Belfast. I greet God, and I greet the God who is more God than the God I greet. I greet my story and hope that I can forget my story during the day, and hope that I can hear some stories, and greet some surprising stories during the long day ahead. I greet my own small world and I hope that I can meet the bigger world someday. I greet the things I think will happen and I say hello to everything I do not know about the day.
I greet my untold stories, my unfolding story, my unloved body, my own love, my own body. Through stories, whether they be his own, the stories of the Gospels or other people’s Padraig offers us stories as a vehicle to go places, to move through experiences and encounters with ourselves, and others whomever they may be, through the stories Padraig invites us to ‘see people noticing people. I recognize and greet my burdens, my luck, my controlled and uncontrollable story. Pdraig Tuama is the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound a podcast that has gained over 10 million downloads since its start in 2020 and also the author of Poetry Unbound 50 Poems to Open Your Life. I say hello to distraction and privilege, I greet the day and I greet my beloved and bewildering Jesus. I say hello to my chaos, my unmade decisions, my unmade bed, my desire and my trouble.
So every morning I sit, I kneel, waiting, making friends with the habit of listening, hoping that I'm being listened to. But I know that it's a good idea to sit anyway. “Neither I nor the poets I love found the keys to the kingdom of prayer and we cannot force god to stumble over us where we sit. Showing results by narrator Pdraig Tuama in All Categories In the Shelter Poetry Unbound Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community Poetry Unbound The.
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