Monthly Archives: April 2022

Tuesday of the 5th week of Lent

 

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When you have lifted up the son of man.

Then you will know who I am.
But can we can.
Do I even know who I really am.
But is it necessary to know where the guide comes from.
Is it not enough to know where he is leading us to.
This may only be comfort’s crumb.
And it may only satisfy a few.
But better not to obsess.
About what you cannot prove.
We may have to do with less.
To free us from doubt’s groove.
I know his message is right for me.
Further than that I cannot see.
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He asks who am I
We will not have the answer
In this short lifetime
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See John 8: 21-30

Monday of the 5th week of Lent

 

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I am the light of the world.

Anyone who follows me will not be walking in the dark.
I sleep, I dream badly lying curled.
In the morning I rise with the lark.
To stop suffering you have to lose control.
And pass it to fate or God or karma.
It is not our body that counts but our soul.
Otherwise all is ceaseless drama.
But with Christ someone is listening.
Ready to share any burden.
So I put my faith in night praying.
Hoping to  slowly unburden.
It is not just in surrendering the ego.
That we take heart to get up and go .
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Our preferences
They are all so absorbing
Can we renounce them
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See John 8 : 12-20

5th Sunday of Lent

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I have accepted the loss of everything.
I look on everything as so much rubbish.
In God alone we can take wing.
This is all we need to publish.

Irritation is rooted in desire to be in control.
When we surrender that control totally to God.
And renounce our own preferences to our soul.
And put faith in a spiritual God.

The need and motivation.
For irritation disappears.
This is is our salvation.
And the end of all tears.

We can then remain even tempered .
In the face of setbacks and carry on unhindered.

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A simple idea
Is to put God in control
It’s so difficult

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See  Philippians 3 : 8-14 and
More Saintly Solutions by Fr Joseph Esper

Saturday of the 4th week of Lent

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The waves of death rose about me.
The pains of the netherworld surrounded me.
I seem submerged in a Black Sea.
In my dreams, resurrection, I could not foresee.

When hope dies.
And worries or grief arise.
In our own view of God, our salvation lies.
We may not be content, but we may be wise.

We wake before dawn’s first light.
With no answer to sleep’s plea
But  I try to keep this prayer in sight .
Enlighten ,guide, strengthen and console me.

I promise to be submissive in all you ask of me.
And to accept all that you permit to happen to me.

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When sleep does not come
Rest your tired head in prayer
And then rest may come

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See The Entrance Antiphon of today
Psalm 17

Friday of 4 th Week in Lent

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You do not know him but.
I know him because from him I have come.
Of our own choice we are stuck in a unholy rut.
Not happy but  spiritually glum.

We may never know for sure.
If he is the one.
But he is the lure.
To the one who is one.

We know he walked.
He taught.
And he talked.
But certainty of divinity cannot be caught.

But the only way to approach the one.
Is to try to get to know this one.

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In my mind’s far depths
I seek the truth that matters
And it alludes me

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See John 7 : 1-2, 10 : 24-30