Hello to you all, I say, as the sun rises above the chimneys of North Belfast. Pdraig Tuama is an Irish poet and theologian who brings interests in language, violence and religion to his work. I greet God, and I greet the God who is more God than the God I greet. I greet my story and hope that I can forget my story during the day, and hope that I can hear some stories, and greet some surprising stories during the long day ahead. I greet my own small world and I hope that I can meet the bigger world someday. I greet the things I think will happen and I say hello to everything I do not know about the day. I greet my untold stories, my unfolding story, my unloved body, my own love, my own body.
I recognize and greet my burdens, my luck, my controlled and uncontrollable story. I say hello to distraction and privilege, I greet the day and I greet my beloved and bewildering Jesus. I say hello to my chaos, my unmade decisions, my unmade bed, my desire and my trouble. So every morning I sit, I kneel, waiting, making friends with the habit of listening, hoping that I'm being listened to. Irish poet and theologian, Padraig Tuama, writes with a winsome, delicate charm that makes the reading of this book a complete delight. But I know that it's a good idea to sit anyway. In the shelter is all about learning to say hello, learning to greet yourself, others and God, learning to welcome all the experiences of life good and bad. “Neither I nor the poets I love found the keys to the kingdom of prayer and we cannot force god to stumble over us where we sit.
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