March's Prayer

The other night I was reading a A Child's Book of Prayers, illustrated by Michael Hague, with Emily before she went to sleep. The art is beautiful, all pictures of children playing in gardens & sand, fishing, following butterflies, sleeping, dreaming. One of the pics is of a little boy in red shoes with a sailor's hat. He's dangling a long stick with a string attached to its end into a pond. The string is hooked to a tiny red boat with an eensy weensy sail that the boy is pulling around in the water.

March's Prayer is for times when we feel like our life is a tiny boat on a big wavy body of greasy green waters:


PRAYER OF THE BRETON FISHERMEN

Dear God, be good to me,

The sea is so wide and my boat is so small.