Meditations on God

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

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

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

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

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