Singing in the Community of Prayer #8
When the world
Seems so without spirit or soul
What must be done
To heal
To make all
Well?
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.
1.
Everyone lives
In community
In communities
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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7.
Seeking the rhythm
Of a better way
Making tomorrow
A more sacred version
Of the present today.
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