Sounds of the Morning

This morning as I listened to the world wake up, it occurred to me that the first thing birds do when the sun rises is sing. Imagine if we sang first thing when we got out of bed. What a difference that would make in our day.

What song would you sing?

This video is a bit long, but it's the most beautiful background song for starting the day. Enjoy. May it be a prayer for your day.

Let me seek the gift of silence

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.

~Thomas Merton