Meditations

I have just published a book, titled, “Closer than Your Own I. Meditations on Union with God.” The work is now available at Amazon.com. I have previously posted a few of these meditations on this website. Here is another, “Open the Gift”: Open the gift you are, To yourself and others, The gift from God, […]

I am calmed by the sea. I wrote a little poem about resting on the sea. Imagine how the following would feel: Sometimes I would like to be a bead of water resting On the rolling stomach of the Sea, Just for a time, so as to fully merge with oceanic Water. As I would […]

I have to have some stillness everyday. Usually, I get that in the early morning before the sun comes up, when I engage in “Abiding Prayer.” Here is a meditative poem I wrote titled, “Stillness”: There is a knowing only stillness can convey, A grasping only silence will allow, So that insight may take root […]

Prayer is like jumping on a trampoline. With that image in mind, I wrote the following. I challenge you to follow its imagery all the way to the end: TRAMPOLINE Beginning to pray The hungering prayer that truly seeks God, Is like stepping out on to a trampoline, And giving up full control of your […]

“When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (John 20:22) Once You breathed on me; I felt Your breath, so softly Surrounding me, then slowing, Ever so delicately, Moving through and filling me With Your liberating Presence. Then Your breath became You, How I know not, […]

I take my quiet with me, So wherever I am, There also is quiet, hovering softly, Waiting patiently to descend like a cloud Upon me when I turn toward You. My quiet, like a true friend Never criticizes or judges me, But is always willing to enter me As I enter it, without question or […]