Consider what it would
mean in our lives and in our world if earth
were as brilliant with divine love as heaven
is. The reality is that when the deepest
longing of our soul and the will of God meet
that is exactly what happens.
It is, in fact, what we are made for. And the
great truth is that when that deepest longing
of our soul is met, we know interior peace.
from Prayers
and Essays:
The
Lord's Prayer
Divinely Intertwined
Glory be to God for dappled
things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout
thatswim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches'
wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow,
and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
from "Pied
Beauty"
by Gerald Manley Hopkins
(1844-1889)
Hopkins is a poet of the spirit, but he is
also one of our greatest innovators when it
comes to seeing the natural world…
from
What Can I Learn from the Mystical Poets?
Turning
Toward God: A Spiritual Practice
for Easter
Week 2: Conversion
Conversion simply means turning—turning
from one way of being to another way of
being. Turning from self toward God. This
turning is facilitated through our life
experiences, the encounters we share, the
moments of quiet that overtake us, the joys
and sorrows that come our way, the heights
and failures we endure, the people who walk
the earth with us.
Who are the people in my life
who have helped pave the path of turning for
me?
from
Journaling as a Spiritual Practice for Easter
