Dear America: Like the Willow Tree by Lois Lowry

Author:Lois Lowry [Lowry, Lois]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780545414982
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Sunday, December 8, 1918

O pray for the fathers, the sisters, and brothers,

O pray for the whole household,

O pray for the mothers, remember all others;

O pray for the whole, whole world.

This was a song we sang today at worship. I have decided that perhaps if I write down the words of the songs, I will learn and remember them more quickly. The sisters and brethren seem to know every song — and there are hundreds — but I stumble along and forget. Today’s was easy, though, and meaningful for me. I prayed for my parents, and my little sister, that they are content in the spirit world, and for Daniel, who is just as lost to me as they are. As for the “whole, whole world”? Well, it will have to get along without my prayers, for I have so many others to concentrate on. The household? That would be this little village, I think, this little village of Shakers. And yes, I will pray for them, though I expect they do not need my prayers, for they are nothing but good.

Except, perhaps, for Ida. The other sisters in the kitchen are very put out with Ida. They try to be charitable but I can hear them murmuring about how she spends entirely too much time smoothing her hair and pinching her cheeks to make them pink, always when the delivery boy is expected. I wonder if she talks about the delivery boy in confession.

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