I heard

The disciple 

Say to me…

Welcome,

Brother,

Sister;

Here, there is

No saint without a past and

No sinner without a future;

Just keep trying

To go first to God

Before turning

To self,

To others,

To things or

To places;

Now, be at peace,

Your sins are forgiven.

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Silence must fight

For the ear of each one of us

Most of the time,

Because most of the time

Each one of us

Is fighting

With the noise

Of years of sin;

Our own and

All the men and women

Who come before us.

That noise must die.

Those people must die.

They must become silent

So that each one of us

Has a chance at the silence

For ourselves

Before we must die.

Yes, only an Etenal word

Can be heard

Through the ages

Afresh and anew

That each soul might learn

To fight the noise,

To fight the sin,

To fight to find

Silence for itself

Within.

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Some days

I cannot find

A single memory

To give me pleasure or

To lighten the burden

Of today’s pain;

So I must run to pleasure

That is easy or simple on

The imagination

The body or

The brain.

A sunrise

Is such a convenience,

As long as the heavens allow;

It takes all the forces of

Yesterday’s darkness and

Wraps them

Within the glory of

Now.

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A new day has blossomed;

I made it through the night;

I am standing with my feet on the floor

My spine is again upright;

The darkness has once more been shattered

My eyes can see the light;

But I pray my soul the better one

Today to have its sight.

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          Sacred moments

          Are scarce;

          They help me to forget myself;

          They awaken my soul;

          Yet they are nothing

          In the face of the mystery

          Of the life around me,

          That talks to me;

          That calls me to love.

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Turn the clocks back!

Die a little,

Maybe a lot;

Life must change,

Darkness must grow

In sense and stature;

Stressful time!

But no denying it

If we want to remain

A part of the fabric of life;

So we die,

A little, a lot;

A good death!

In the end

We find life still

In the darkness.

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God is serious

About being the father, the parent,

The adult in our relationship;

We should be serious

About being the child.

Christ did not permit

His knowledge of His divinity

To interfere with

His dependence on or

His resignation to

The Father.

Neither should we permit

Any foolish, prideful,

Human knowledge which

We might have attained

To interfere with our own

Dependence and resignation.

We must never get lost

In our adulthood or

In our independence or

In our sense of responsibility

Before men.

We must remain a child

Before our Almighty, Good Creator

Above all things, always.

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