Seeking

.

By seeking

God

.

In the silence

You may discover

.

New meaning

To your existence.

.

Image by Andrea Stöckel-Kowall from Pixabay

What Changed?

.

Encountering

The presence

.

Of God

And what changed?

.

It was the way

Of life

.

The new purpose

New meanings

.

And a striving

To be loving and good.

.

Image by Gerardo Maillard from Pixabay

Good

.

God

Is the good

.

So all

That proceeds

.

From God

Must be good.

.

After words by Hildegard of Bingen

.

Image by Gergely Meszárcsek from Pixabay

Humble My Swelling Pride

.

What am I

Compared to the angels?

.

What am I

Compared to God?

.

Those divine

Attributes

.

Humble

My swelling pride.

.

Image by Neegam Singh from Pixabay

The Stairway

 .

It all begins

With a birth

. 

From there

We ascend

 .

The stairway

To God

 .

Which triumphs

All suffering

 .

And transcends

All the earth.

 .

“Jacob’s Ladder”, William Blake

Ascend

.

Ascend the ladder

though the rungs are hidden from sight

.

and the garments of the soul

are likewise changed

.

as it rises invisibly

by faith on its journey

.

and as God envelopes all

in a cloud of loving darkness so bright.

.

Inspired by St. John of the Cross

Painting by William Blake (Jacob’s Ladder)

God Is

.

God

Is free

.

God

Is love

.

God

Is trinity.

.

The Flowers and the Creatures Belong To Me

.

I am in God

And God is in me

.

And the flowers

And the creatures

.

And the trees

Belong to God

.

And also

To me

.

And heaven

And eternity.

.

Inspired by St. Mariam of Jesus Crucified, The Lily of Palestine, O.C.D. (1847-1848), accessed via https://mycarmel.blog/carmel-quotes/

“I am in God, and God is in me. I feel that all creatures, the trees, the flowers belong to God and also to me. I no longer have a will, it belongs to God. And all that is God´s is mine.”

~

Sky Containing Wonder

.

Sky containing wonder

            you drive my eye upwards

                        to God.

.

I do not often see

            such beauty here on earth,

.

Myself but a blurring image

            a poor imitation.

.

Image by Ahmed Hegazy from Pixabay

A Meditation on Light

Light is the source of everything – light energy, positive energy.

Light can represent goodness, aspiration, transcendence – what we long for, what we may be at our best.

Light may also represent ethical and decisional guidance – which may come through reason, or through intuition, or perhaps by revelation.

Light is transformation. We not only see light, but we see differently according to the light that we see in. Light changes everything.

Light is hope.

Light is faith.

Light is love.

God is light.

‘Sun Setting Over a Lake’, Turner