Browsing Category: Poetry
WHEREVER YOU ARE
WHEREVER YOU ARE:A quick little morning scribble from having an opportunity to try and make something with someone in another hemisphere. They were finishing their spring finals. We are near the end of our fall harvest; made me reflect how different our own life experience, seasons, and perceptions can be from someone else living in […]
PICK-ME UP
We all have life-periods when we get down, focus on our clouds instead of what’s still there on their far-side. I imagine this as an upbeat song just speaking a little firsthand affirmation to someone when they need it. Left the name blank, free for anyone to fill in for themselves, or another, should they […]
BLACK-RIFLED
“There is…nothing really good that does not emanate from the ordinance of God, and nothing, however good in itself, can be better adapted for the sanctification of the soul and the attainment of peace.”—Jean Pierre Cassaude, “Abandonment to Divine Providence”
MIRROR TO OUR MOOD
We all have our storms, days of gray when we can’t see the sun. They are a part of life and this world, but same as days of perfect sky-blue—our storms are not permanent. Our melancholies will pass, and sometimes—just like in the sky when a gray won’t break—we just need a little warmth […]
HOLE IN SKY
“God, as The Imitation says, ‘sometimes gives Himself to us in radiant light, sometimes veiled in symbols and in shadows.’ It was veiled in this way that He showed Himself to us, but the veil was so light that we could almost see through and there was no room for doubt…—Saint Therese of Lisieux, “The […]