A Prayer
Refuse to fall down.
If you cannot refuse to fall down,refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down,
lift your heart toward heaven,
and like a hungry beggar,ask that it be filled,
and it will be filled.You may be pushed down.
You may be kept from rising.
But no one can keep youfrom lifting your hearttoward heaven - only you.
It is in the middle of miserythat so much becomes clear.
The one who says nothing goodcame of this,is not yet listening.
© Clarissa Pinkola Estes
From The Faithful GardnerPublished by HarperSanFrancisco, 1995
