Bless God In The Darkness

Bless God In the darkness In loneliness And in pain Though you feel them all again Are the steps on the way To a better day Through an ending night And you begin to see Through the mystery Wisdom’s invisible light.

Sun’s Blessing

Stone, Light and Prayer #1 ~ The time was right Light poured through The emptiness of air With a sun’s Blessing This co-existence Of history And present will So fair. ~ Inspired by a visit to Tintern Abbey in Wales ~ Tintern Abbey, Wales, August 2022

Unexpected Presence

Longing for the touch of love he sought in the woods In the heavens In the hills Revelation came As an unexpected presence Who would not stay long But for that blessed time Show mercy Without end. ~ Inspired by The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi ~

It Is Good To Be Here

It is good To be here To be Is to mean And to live with meaning A great good indeed So in silence I still my soul And receive Those words of blessing “It is good to be here” Which now I believe. Image by gb59098 from Pixabay

Surrounded by an Infinity of Infinities

Surrounded By an infinity Of infinities At every different scale We seem So inconsequential And yet not so Because there is That which passes All understanding Both beyond And within And knowing that truth Is both blessing And our salvation From despair.

The More Blessed Way

~ We must start Where many believe ~ They have achieved Their life’s purpose ~ Accomplishment Success ~ Are gods Of delusion ~ We are invited To move ~ Beyond the illusion Beyond ~ What the world Values today ~ Into sacrifice Love ~ The more blessed Way. ~ Image by Venrike Artworks from Pixabay

Inspiring Paintings: Leaving and Finding a Father

~ One father curses another blesses ~ While onlookers stare and the bishop turns away ~ And finally What is this all about? ~ Even heaven And earth. ~ In this dramatic painting by Giotto,  Francis has taken off all his clothes and is appealing to God.  His earthly father (on the left), who demanded …

Bless To Us This Night

~ Bless to us This night  ~ This darkness In which we sleep ~ Bless to us The deep ~ The mystery Where we come And where we go ~ The minutes  That leap so fast ~ And the hours  That creep so slow ~ And bless to us This night ~ In which we …

The Mystery, The Gift

~ The revelation That God is One and Three ~ The mystery The gift ~ The blessing Of The Trinity. ~

Blessing

God has To be there ~ In the original Blessing of darkness ~ God has To be there ~ In the original Blessing ~ Of Light. ~