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Arwen Xaverine's avatar

Our lady of the internet connection,

Whose constancy in the vastness keeps us connected in the darkness.

Our lady of the word processor whose steadfastness holds us in language beyond time, space, and the vicissitudes of the cosmos.

Our lady of the nimble fingers,

Grant us the power always to write what we feel and share it in the world so that we might remember that we are kin.

Dear sister writer, blessings upon your task and on your going about on that land so far away and in the grace of She who keeps us all remembering that we are we, not only, and are ever held in love.

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Sophia Voyevod Elliott's avatar

Thank you Sylvia for these beautiful litanies that inspire a refocusing in me of the hope and deep reverence for the land and life I inhabit.

When I first took your Writing Down the Stars classes in 2020, my life was forever changed, and this prayer you had shared at that time was truly a life saving balm through both personal and global immensely troubled times. The practice of writing my own litanies thereafter pulled me back from the edges of resentment and bitter sorrows. Opened my eyes and my listening heart. Sat me down in the rich earth with the wild plants growing up through the cracks in the concrete, and in turn cracked me open to that unending love.

Since first reading your litany, this prayer practice always arrives with a tender yet firm reminder just when I need it most. It is the hand that pulls me back into the wonderments of this world and the one that clasps me to all beings and the rooted earth once more.

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