There is an End

There is an end to the silent wailing of the heart . The anxious furrow of the mind stretches not to eternity . And as night is succeeded by day so the weight of your world . Will drift joyfully, imperceptibly away. .

Ikon (1)

. She holds him to the world A mirror which reflects . Our hopes of divinity in the eyes of a child . A shield which displays the genesis of humankind . She holds him to the world and looks away. . Icon of the Enthroned Virgin, 6th Century

How to move the world?

~ How to move The world ~ Just a fraction? How to notify ~ The cosmos Of our existence? ~ It mystifies So many ~ And maybe The better aim ~ Is to journey Inwards ~ So the soul Does not in immaturity ~ Or misplaced activity Remain. ~ Image by Christine Griffith from Pixabay

Discovering True Life in Appreciation

As if there were No connections . I shrivelled And died . To a careless world As a way of staying alive . Now I know more Of creation . I seek the art To thrive . In God In love . Discovering True life . In Appreciation. .

The Hopes of Every Soul

. A mistle thrush Was singing . As if all the world Were ringing . With the hopes Of every soul . The year Was at its ending . But the light was growing Mending . Darkness Which could never wrestle . Ultimate Control. .

How to move the world?

~ How to move The indifferent world ~ Just a fraction? How to notify ~ The cosmos Of our existence? ~ It mystifies So many ~ And maybe The better aim ~ Is to journey Inwards ~ So the fledgling soul Does not in infancy ~ Or misplaced complacency Remain. ~ Image by Christine Griffith …

I Have Found My Way

. I have found my way  and it is a different way to the world’s way   . A way that leads to life through death  a way of grace and reconciliation  humility, obedience and self-renunciation   . I have found my way  I have found a new identity   . Now I can begin again  to live and work  . to write and sing  I can begin again   . …

Creation Sings Its Music

That simple good Which is God ~ Conceives a new world In which we may be Born again ~ Or continue To live as dead Unchanging things ~ And yet creation sings Its music ~ And urges us To dance To its newest tune ~ Let us listen then Soon ~ To the words It …

Let Go

Let go Of your received Preconceptions About God ~ Let go Of your received Ideas About the world ~ Let go Of what you think About the human Person ~ And experience Things as they are Things as they could be ~ Through divine imagination And the spirit Of creativity. ~ Image by steveowst from …

Born Into a New World

~ And then I was born Into a new world ~ Cold Vast With complications ~ And the mind Had to grow ~ With the body Heart and soul ~ And there was so much To understand ~ Before I could start To gasp ~ And grasp The whole. ~