What Is There to Doubt?

(Found here)

Prayer—cradle your head

in cupped hands and spill
forth. Into that dark trough
flood the truest things you know:
fears, regrets, gratitude, love —
and then the miracle:

you glimpse yourself:

a string of misshapen pearls
somehow reflecting light,
somehow noble now,
raised in offering
to the Mystery.

~Colm O’Shea