![]() ![]() 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 that day. He teaches religion, storytelling and conflict transformation and is a popular speaker at conferences and festivals in Ireland, the UK, THe US and Australia. I greet the things I think will happen and I say hello to everything I do not know about the day. Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian based in Belfast. I greet my untold stories, my unfolding story, my unloved body, my own body. I recognise and greet my burdens, my luck, my controlled and uncontrollable story. 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 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 have found the keys to the kingdom of prayer and we cannot force God to stumble over us where we sit. ![]()
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