Prayer

At Boggle Hole YHA the rooms are named after the sea areas of the shipping forecast. I'm in Cromarty which reminds me of times spent on the NE coast of Scotland, especially with Bob and Hannah in the final few days of their End to Ends (2003 and 2012 respectively).

It also reminds me Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Prayer' which ends with a recitation of those names. The poem raises questions of prayer: what is it? So does this walk. Is a walk a prayer?

Over centuries, many people have thought so. Some walks are more formal others more creative. Opportunities to pray in different ways may be planned or occur more randomly. The labyrinth, like the one at Whitby Abbey, is one way to walk and pray but there's no limit really.

The Remembered Bible (RB) fits well with walking as it saves the extra weight of carrying a print or digital Bible if you use the Bible in you. Let it resonate with the landscape and the encounters and prayers are likely to pop-up like some of these examples in the blog over the week of this walk.