A Prayer to Eve
Mother of fictions
and of irony,
help us to laugh.
Mother of science
and the critical method,
keep us humble.
Muse of listeners,
hope of interpreters,
inspire us to act.
Bless our metaphors,
that we might eat them.
Help us to know, Eve,
the one thing we must do.
Come with us, muse of exile,
mother of the road.
Walking with Kathleen Norris A Contemplative Journey by Robert Waldron uses the seasons of Spring, Summer and Fall in which he responds to the prose and poetry of Kathleen Norris. You are given glimpses of the author's soulscape as well as that of Norris. He is also the author of Walking with Thomas Merton and Walking with Henri Nouwen which are on my list to read.
In the epilogue Waldron says "What, we may ask, is transferred by Norris to her reader? Surely it is her faith and hope in and love of God. Thus she offers spiritual sustenance to her readers, the greatest gift any artist can offer. Without any doubt on my part, Kathleen Norris is one of our great spiritual memoirists, as well as a fine poet: she is a poet who has something vital to share , and she altruistically reaches out to touch her readers with prose and poems announcing God's presence here and now. All we have to do is open our eyes and pay attention."
In the epilogue Waldron says "What, we may ask, is transferred by Norris to her reader? Surely it is her faith and hope in and love of God. Thus she offers spiritual sustenance to her readers, the greatest gift any artist can offer. Without any doubt on my part, Kathleen Norris is one of our great spiritual memoirists, as well as a fine poet: she is a poet who has something vital to share , and she altruistically reaches out to touch her readers with prose and poems announcing God's presence here and now. All we have to do is open our eyes and pay attention."
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