Meditations

Your heart hears as well as sees, but not as your physical ears and eyes. This inner sensing of the heart is called “discernment.” Applied to your relationship to God that means your heart may grasp realities your mind and body will miss. So you must be open and trusting of what your heart senses […]

I am in a “heart-fusion” with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It has become the greatest constant in my daily life. The breakthrough occurred during a ten-day intensive Centering Prayer retreat in August, 2003. The poem “Arrival” was among the first of a group of poetic meditations I wrote shortly after that life-changing event: I […]

How You can be both distant and near At seemingly the same time and place Will forever elude me. How I can so decisively sense You But not with any of my normal senses Abides like You beyond my grasp. Without mutual space continuously between us, Your unseen, immeasurable expanse, Not of this time-space continuum, […]

It is best to seek You empty, So You may fill me with Yourself. The best I can offer You Is an empty vessel openly awaiting Your radiant, radiating indwelling. You are ever the Subject between us As is Love, which You bring And which You are, So that to encounter You Is to breathe […]

Ask for Your blessing, And that is what You may give, But only Your blessing. Ask for something from You, And that is what You may give, But only something from You. Those in need of this or that May well get this or that, But only this or that, In Your time and in […]

FINDING YOURSELF One day you will wake up From the illusion That there are barriers To seeing and being yourself; And you will finally find yourself in sheer being. Though you may seem too small to satisfy Your cravings to be a somebody, You will realize you are really enough, And being enough is better […]