Lord sometimes
you feel so far away
so absent and hard to reach
and yet I know
you are nearer to me
than I am to myself
your very presence
pouring itself out
moment to moment
breathing life into being
you are existence itself
show me the way Lord
back to you
who has never left me
Author: Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Never Left
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No Holiness
Our very prayers
are a gift from God
the love we feel
in our hearts
graced upon us
through the Holy Spirit
for we are nothing
without the Lord
there is no holiness
within us
save for that holiness
bestowed upon us
by He who is holiness itself
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With Us
God with us
walking with us
talking with us
living with us
dying with us
resurrected with us
that we may
walk with
talk with
live with
die with
resurrect with
God with us
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Turn Back
Every thought
of separation
between myself
God and man
a sin against the Spirit
from which I must repent
turn back the heart
turn back the soul
turn back the mind
to love
for the kingdom of God
is at hand
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Yourself To We
What greater
act of compassion
than to become as we
to feel what we feel
be tempted as we are tempted
suffer as we suffer
what greater act of love
than to die with us
to die as us
to die for us
so that we may be with thee
free from this world
its promise of death
eternally yours
you who gave yourself to we
Meditations on God 