I welcome everything that comes to me today
because I know it’s for my healing.
I welcome all thoughts, feelings, emotions, persons,
situations, and conditions.
I let go of my desire for power and control.
I let go of my desire for affection, esteem,
approval and pleasure.
I let go of my desire for survival and security.
I let go of my desire to change any situation,
condition, person or myself.
I open to the love and presence of God and
God’s action within. Amen.
-Fr. Thomas Keating
Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,
what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.
In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.
And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.
Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Bio, visions, hazelnut 6:39
Trust in our Lord 6:35 to 10:05/21:50
Her Little Way, Fulton Sheen to 4:25/19:14
Little Way, Thomas Keating 10:05-19:46
Fr James Martin to 9:01
Top 10 quotes 3:32
Fr Robert Barron at Therese window 5:26
The simple soul Pope Francis 3:25
All has been consecrated.
The creatures in the forest know this,
the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know as does the heart full of
love.
Strange a priest would rob us of this knowledge
and then empower himself
with the ability
to make holy what
already was.
St. Catherine of Siena
Love Poems from God
He desired me so I came close.
No one can near God unless He has
prepared a bed for you.
A thousand souls hear His call every second,
but most every one then looks into their life’s mirror and
says, “I am not worthy to leave this sadness.”
When I first heard His courting song, I too
looked at all I had done in my life and said,
“How can I gaze into His omnipresent eyes?”
I spoke these words with all my heart,
but then He sang again a song even sweeter,
and when I tried to shame myself once more from His presence
God showed me His compassion and spoke a divine truth.
“I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect.
Please come close, for I
desire you.”
St. Teresa of Avila
Love Poems from God
If He
let go of my hand, I would
weep so loudly,
I would petition with all my might, I would cause
so much trouble
that I bet God would come to His senses
and never do that
again.
Meister Eckhart
Love Poems from God
God
and I have become
like two giant fat people living in a tiny
boat.
We
keep bumping into
each other
and laughing
Hafiz
Love Poems from God
Let God Love You the Way God Wants
I know that true joy comes from letting God love me the way God wants, whether it is through illness or health, failure or success, poverty or wealth, rejection or praise. It is hard for me to say, “I shall gratefully accept everything, Lord, that pleases you. Let your will be done.” But I know that when I truly believe my Father is pure love, it will become increasingly possible to say these words from the heart.
Charles de Foucauld once wrote a prayer of abandonment that expresses beautifully the spiritual attitude I wish I had.
Father, I abandon myself into your hands,
do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you;
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done in me, and in all your creatures.
I wish no more than this, O Lord.
Into your hands I commend my soul;
I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,
for I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,
to surrender myself into your hands without reserve,
and with boundless confidence, for you are my Father.
It seems good to pray this prayer often. These are words of a holy man, and they show the way
I must go. I realize that I can never make this prayer come true by my own efforts. But the Spirit
of Jesus given to me can help me pray it and grow to its fulfillment. I know that my inner peace
depends on my willingness to make this prayer my own.
–Henri Nouwen