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Continue reading →: “Make Room for Today”
I have suffered loss I was not to blame That’s the way life is. Sometimes we face pain. We feel emptiness We think life is vain We don’t see the promise That comes within the rain. But then you show me My reason for living. And then you give me…
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Continue reading →: Fresh Air: A Reflection on Thomas Merton’s Conjectures of an Innocent Bystander
My initial reading of Thomas Merton’s Conjectures of an Innocent Bystander leaves me feeling oddly refreshed in perspective, but also nostalgic, unsettled and stirred. Merton seems to have no rhyme to his writing. He makes observations on anything that crosses his mind. But the refreshing thing is that it is…
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Continue reading →: “Gravity”
It’s calling, the thunder is calling a beckoning to awe Cease your daily dilly dally Ponder now nature’s law It’s gripping you, nowhere to run. Now think about the One. It’s pulling, the many it’s pulling May you be drawn away From ev’ry prejudiced delight Attend not to the made…
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Continue reading →: "Grace, Love, Surrender"
I know who I am And I know that it’s hard to be me Sometimes I sin And sometimes I feel free And I want to see the grace Be perfected in me I want it to become My identity I know who I am And I know who I’d…
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Continue reading →: "Close to You"
I won’t run from You I like the fact that You’re there Sometimes I hide, it’s true In those times when I get scared I can’t get close to You Won’t bring myself to prayer Though I know You see through I pretend that You’re not there I know You…
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