I've been thinking recently that prayer is a returning to love. And maybe if that’s the case, we can get rid of the upward image we often carry with us about what life is supposed to be. That we are moving up a line on a graph, moving from Point A (birth, at the left-side base of the graph) and ending up at the right hand corner. Complete. Final. Having checked off our big life dreams as we went. Instead, I think, life is like faith: circular, moving round and round, faster and faster, tighter as you get to the bottom. It’s like a tornado, really. We move around and around the sun, but also around and around each other, being pulled tighter toward what we’ve made the center, as life brings us closer to the point at the bottom of things. 

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