Today’s Prayer to Passage is from the book ‘The Writing Life’ by the impeccable Annie Dillard.

My prayer today is, “Dear God, speak to me of simplicity. Amen.”

Following my prayer, I held the closed book in my hands and opened it to this passage on page 78:

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“Admire the world for never ending on you—as you would admire an opponent, without taking your eyes from him, or walking away.
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
After Michelangelo died, someone found in his studio a piece of paper on which he had written a note to his apprentice, in the handwriting of his old age: ‘Draw, Antonio, draw, Antonio, draw and do not waste time.'”
—ANNIE DILLARD

That was so lovely to read. Thank You.