The Calling Is To Love

~ A crowd Of the flowering Of humankind ~ In ugliness And beauty Descended from above ~ And the calling Made to all Was to love. ~ Image by TheOtherKev from Pixabay

This Calling of Love

~ Honouring another merely human being - is this idolatry? ~ Yet the giving of worth, affirmation ~ Is this calling of Love. ~ Inspired by this painting from The Life of St. Francs of Assisi by Giotto - 'St. Francis Honoured by a Simple Man'

Bridge Between Two Worlds

~ Bridge Between two worlds . Earthly Heavenly . Light And darkness . The human Being . Poised As body and spirit . Contemplating All that is made. ~ 'Vitruvian Man' Leonardo da Vinci

The Very Centre of Being

. God dwells In the very centre . Of being Where the most secret things pass . Where differences Seem most indistinguishable . Between spirit Human and divine . In the timeless immaterial Reality of transformation. .

The Sacredness of the Human Soul

. It all begins At the beginning . And whether or not There is God . From there the whole Of the rest follows . Love Goodness . Destiny Freedom . And the sacredness Or not . Of the human Soul. . Image by Daniel Boos from Pixabay

The Universal Mystery

Now I know That merely our human existence Evidences the meaning Of history Of the whole universal mystery Of life Of everything And of God. Inspired by Thomas Merton: our “very humanity” tells us that “life has a meaning … Our life provokes us with the evidence that it must have meaning” (from No Man …

Journey the Length of the Valley of Darkness

Journey The length Of the valley Of darkness ~ And learn there The lightness Of our human Condition ~ And what was despair Slowly changes The air ~ To a clearer Mysterious Beyond natural Brightness. ~

The Christ Mystery

~ This is The Christ mystery ~ That God Should be dwelling ~ In our Humanity. ~

Branches to Infinity

I sit under the shadows of the unseen God             who branches to infinity and roots inside our soiled hearts             earthing them in prayer They come to ask of me             and all I can offer is a heart connected in spirit             to the love that invisibly grows without                         within the human …

The Depths of the Mysteries

Creature Seared by suffering The depths of the mysteries Of God Have begun to permeate Your being So speak so more Of the human family Will know How to know God so Salvation will come by their seeing. ~ Adapted from Hildegard of Bingen, who is remembered and celebrated on 17th September. ~