Jillian Armstrong ’s Reviews > The Mermaid Chair > Status Update

“I suppose I pray in other ways.” “What ways?” I asked, realizing after I’d said it how intrusive it sounded. I was sure I’d never asked anyone about his prayer life before. “Thomas Merton wrote that the birds were his prayers, and I guess I feel that way, too. I pray best by just being out in the marsh. It’s the only praying my soul seems to really respond to.”