St John Henry Newman

The spirit reaches the depth of everything.
After all the depths of man can only be known by his own spirit.
Today when I looked for Newman’s kindly light I saw nothing.
Was it because my spiritual seeking was without merit.

I wondered if there is a God , he could stand hearing all these complaints.
I find it difficult enough to be patient with the few addressed to me.
I know we cannot all be saints.
And what a dreary world that would be.

We can never plumb the depths of God because we are not spirit.
Perhaps we can only know God not from what we can see but from the gifts given.
Through humanity’s surrounding fog we can dimly see it.
We know these things if at all spiritually not rationally, thus it was always been.

We can only follow that barely perceived light.
For we are given human not spiritual sight.