Meditations

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 […]

Heaven is between us. If you do not get that, You do not get heaven. One day you will get heaven, Hopefully while you are still here, To enjoy and prepare for the greater heaven, Where nothing will stop the flow Of love between you and God And those of God. Look for heaven inside […]

“I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete” (John 15:11). One of the greatest gifts of the Spirit is joy, more the joy of being-with than of having something. It is the joy which arises from the sensed presence of God; […]