Meditations

You are my end, my destiny. Yet You are also my only means to that end. As You have said: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” You are the narrow door Through which I must pass to attain What can only be sensed […]

In times of stress or struggle, Listen for The higher voice, The deeper voice, The quieter voice, The calmer voice, The voice of reason and restraint, The voice of wisdom and clarity. That voice is always present within you, If you but stop, cease wrestling And listen, just listen. If you are listening With too […]

Prayer is as an unseen carpet, Though not at its beginning, but Only as you stay on it, Persevering through its moods and colorations. At first prayer may seem like A narrow patch of grass On which to merely sit, For a verbal releasing, Whether the sun is shining bright With glad rays of hope […]

God is beyond all imaging. We may project images onto the vast space of imagination, and may need to for comfort sake. Yet the God who is God, who may let us play with masks and images, acting as if this or that is God, or the seeming grounds for denying God’s existence. These are, […]

The most profound hunger and thirst is for God. Too few of us realize this, however. We spend our time and energy on the things which do not really satisfy. As St. Augustine said, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.”

Most of us search for peace, yet few know how to find it. I poetic terms, I offer you a possible path, one which has worked for me: