… Because we pray to be renewed

and three weeks later we are exactly the same

Because my son and I hugged in the elevator

and the stench of rubbish lingered on our skin

Because the woman on the subway

was reading a Russian novel …

Amy Gottlieb, AM’82, “The Reasons for Liturgy”

Read the whole poem:

https://onbeing.org/blog/amy-gottlieb-the-reasons-for-liturgy