A More Sacred Version of the Present Today

Singing in the Monastery of the Heart #7

Seeking the rhythm

Of a better way

Making tomorrow

A more sacred version

Of the present today.

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This cycle of poems has been inspired by ‘The Monastery of the Heart’ by Joan Chittester. Previous poems in the cycle can be read after the image.

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1.

Everyone lives

In a monastery

In the monastery

Of the heart.

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2.

Easy to think sometimes

Life is lonely

But in solitude

Can be found

Such a sense

Of belonging

Quietude

That grounds the soul

And make the heart

To sing.

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3.

An invitation

To a meaningful life

Where the only frontier

Is God’s infinity

Of love reaching

From infinity to here.

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4.

We all seek

But how many find

The grail?

And to fail

Is to understand

That God

The answer

Waits

Always

Beyond.

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This cycle of poems has been inspired by ‘The Monastery of the Heart’ by Joan Chittester. Previous poems in the cycle can be read after the image.

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5.

We seek

For the life enlightening

The life

That is not frightening

But guides us gently

Towards love

That word whose definition

Is always rising heavenwards

Holy, above.

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6.

The world seethes

And simmers with noise

Is there not

One voice

Which calls

Throughout –

Which whispers

Silently

Behind

Every shout.

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