“It is because this prayer is enclosed within the chapel, she sees, not despite the enclosure, that it becomes potent enough to be heard. Perhaps the song of a bird in a chamber is more precious than the wild bird’s because the chamber itself makes it so.

Perhaps the free air that gives the wild bird its better song in fact limits the reach of its prayer.

So small, this understanding. So remarkably tiny. Still, it might be enough to live for.”