The chapel

I go

to the
chapel
to pray
for
those
I love
their
names
are
written
on my
heart
and
then
I kneel
at the
altar
and
begin
''Dear Heavenly Father, please hear my prayers and I thank you Father that you have heard me and that you always hear me''and then I bow my head to pray

I

know

he

listens

to

me

when

I lift

up the

names

one

by one

then I

close

with the
Lord’s
prayer
then
I rise
and
stand
before
the
stained
glass
window
of Jesus
in the
garden
then
I look
on the
altar
with
fresh
linens
cup
bread
and
Bible
then
I walk
away
slowly
one
thought
lingers
the Lord loves for us to pray

Lonely Places

I look up from my book
to gaze out into the blue-green ocean
watch the pelicans
a man appears
he does not see me sitting there
so still
he puts down his work pail
facing the ocean
bows his head for a moment
in prayer
then he lifts his arms high as he looks up to heaven
and talks to God
when he is finished
he looks up and then he notices me
I tell him that I am Christian
ask him if he needs a prayer
he smiles in gratitude
tells me that he comes here everyday before work to pray
we say so long
he walks away
(edited by TH)