In need of a retreat

I feel like I am in need of a "retreat"...... and I can upon this poem/prayer last night in the book I was reading called "100 Graces" which the authors or rather editors (Marcia & Jack Kelly) have selected 100 of their favorite..... as they call them..... "mealtime blessings".

Here is one of my favorite ones:

"The Peace of Wild Things"
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water, and I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. - Wendell Berry

For those of you who don't know who Wendell Berry is..... it's worth a google search!

PS: Thanks to Steve and Vanni for the wonderful Christmas gift of this book.