Tweet “It arrives with an independent life of its own, overflowing with energy and newness. . . . Apparently generated by a superior intelligence, it is indescribable and can only be represented by metaphors, such as lightning, the breath of life, a divine voice” (inevitable grace—breakthroughs in the lives of great men and women: guides…
Category Archives: Faith
Touch the Sun
Tweet A Walk My eyes already touch the sunny hill, going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance – and changes us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it,…
Drinking Light
Tweet Like Roots Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light. –St. Francis of Assisi (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.40) St….
Through Death’s Doorway
Tweet Pre-death dreams and visions can contain images of light. “. . . Light-as-divine-guide also emerged in the dream of John Sanford’s father, when a bright light shines through from a window behind the stopped mantelpiece clock, revealing a ‘brilliant path’ that draws him forward, away from this world” (Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to…
Delirious Joy
Tweet The great sea has set me in motion, set me adrift, moving me like a reed in a river. The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I’m carried away trembling with joy. –Uvavnuk (The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry edited by Stephen Mitchell, p.123) “Uvavnuk…
Death: The Beginning of Life
Tweet This article is dedicated in particular to Susan Niebur, four-time cancer survivor and presently in hospice contemplating her journey beyond death, and to others who approach death . . . ultimately, all us. “During the fiercest period of her chemotherapy, my friend Melanie often asked me to speak poems to help her through the…
Poetry as Soul Food
Tweet “Poetry has meant a great deal in my life. That sensitivity, that intuition, an attitude of tenderness before nature, before all things, before people, before pain, before weakness, before pettiness, at times and under circumstances of exultation also. I therefore believe that poetry has been for me much more than a hobby. It has…
Guardian Angel
Tweet I am the bird that flutters against your window in the morning, and your closest friend, whom you can never know, blossoms that light up for the blind. I am the glacier shining over the woods, so pale, and heavy voices from the cathedral tower. The thought that suddenly hits you in the middle…
Heart-Light Shining
Tweet This mist, this cloud, this darkness into which we go, transcending knowledge, is the path below which your face cannot be found except veiled; but it is that very darkness which reveals your face is there, beyond all veils. –Nicolas of Cusa (Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations by Matthew Fox, p.151) Nicolas of…
Follow Your Calling
Tweet if I do not fulfill my heart’s vocation, I suffer. –St. Thomas Aquinas (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.144) Love and More This quote is the third stanza of the poem Otherwise the Darkness by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). His soul’s purpose, stated…
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