Introducing ... Marjory

Marjory is the twenty-eigth doll in my Inner Child series.


  On the Road 

Please, slow down 
And walk with me. 
Be my companion 
For a mile or two 
And tell me your story,
For I have much to learn 
And every pilgrim’s story enhances my own. 
Speak to me of yearnings 
Beyond people and things 
And show me the leaning 
Of your heart like a compass 
Towards true north. 
It does not matter 
That we borrow from different books 
Or use different words 
To describe the journey. 
We are on the same path 
Whatever shoes we wear. 

Joy Cowley

MARJORY

Prayer for Pilgrims 

Our Father in heaven 
you are the aim and object of our lives, 
and the goal of our pilgrimage, 
for you have made us for yourself 
and our hearts are restless 
until they rest in you. 
Show us again the way 
along which our pilgrimage 
must travel, 
for your son Jesus is the way 
that leads to you. 
It is by following him, 
by identifying ourselves with him, 
by suffering with him, 
and rising with him, 
that we know we are on 
the right path. 
Help us never to stray 
from that path, 
but to walk in the 
footsteps he has 
marked out for us, 
as all the martyrs 
and saints 
have done before us. 
Amen.