For the Domesticated

Praying through the Season of Creation

Helpmate of the heavens, you are the model master, the servant leader who has shown us through your presence how to have dominion: with compassion.

Thank you for the ones whose purpose has become our service, our fluffy shadows who sandwich us on Sabbath days, who perk up at the sounds and turns of phrase they know—Walk? Bath? Ball? Bed?—the ones who alw…