Different Ways to Pray

Different Ways to Pray

A poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye’s richly evocative “Different Ways to Pray” finds a noble reverence in the way ordinary lives are led: men who had been shepherds so long they walked like sheep or women whose daily pilgrimage was not about Mecca but about lugging water from the spring or balancing baskets of grapes. (via Providence Singers)