Daily Meditation for November 13, 2025

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life?” asks poet Mary Oliver. We are in the winding-down season of the year. Summer plans did or didn’t turn out, the glorious fall colors are fading, school days have become routine, winter hovers right around the corner. Our wild and precious lives have a way of becoming daily, repetitive and, even though busy, boring. To prevent this, we need to have a plan. What do you really want to accomplish, not just this week, but in your lifetime? What should others recognize as your passion? What is God calling you to do, to make the world around you better? What wild thing have you always wanted to do?

By Mary Jackle, OSB