“Nothing could frighten me”
Do you ever find yourself often afraid of that which could be the best for you? You fight against the very one who would be your biggest help. Today’s Sunday-poem addresses that very thing.
The Voice
I am afraid of silence. I am afraid
Of my own soul. I am afraid of hearing
A voice–one voice above all voices–made
Clear in the silence. I shall grow old fearing
This silence that goes with me wherever I go.
I cannot keep it in or bar it out.
Always within, around, above, below,
It beats upon me. I am hedged about
Most utterly. Surrounded. Yet I raise
Even now a futile barrier of sound
Against the voice in silence I dispraise,
Against the voice I dread that hems me round;
To which, did I but listen, I should be
Afraid of nothing. Nothing could frighten me.
Sr. Maris Stella
God comes to us
“God comes to us not where we should have been if we had made all the right choices in life; not where we could have been if we had taken every opportunity that God has offered us; not where we wish we were if we didn’t have to be in the place where we find ourselves; not where we think we are because our minds are out of sync with our hearts; not where other people think we are or think we ought to be when they are attending to their own agendas. God meets us where we really are.”
Margaret Silf
The very thing we are afraid of
“The very thing we are afraid of, our brokenness, is the door to our Father’s Heart.” (Paul Miller)
Find the gold
Mercy is greater
A turquoise table
How to manage
Friday from the archives
Some more excerpts from Deb Herbeck’s book, Safely Through the Storm:
I will not mistrust [God], thought I feel myself weakening and on the verge of being overcome by fear . . . .I trust he shall place his holy hand on me and in the stormy seas hold me up from drowning. (St. Thomas More)
Go and find him when your patience and strength give out and you feel alone and helpless. Jesus is waiting for you in the chapel. Say to him, “Jesus, you know exactly what is going on. You are all that I have, and you know all. Come to my help.” And then go, and don’t worry about how you are going to manage. That you have told God about it is enough. He has a good memory. (St. Jeanne Jugan)
All things fail, but You, O Lord of them all, never fail. …
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Wanting to be who you are
“The Little Way finds joy in the present moment, in being pleased to be the person you are, whoever you are. It is a school of self-acceptance, which goes beyond accepting who you are to wanting to be who you are. It is a way of coming to terms with life not as it might be but as it is.” (Bishop Patrick Ahern)
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