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Praying
It doesn't have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don't try
to make them elaborate, this isn't
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.
--Mary Oliver

. . . no soul is rested
Til it is emptied of all things
That are made.
--Julian of Norwich

When we are weak, we are
strong. When our eyes close
on the world, then somewhere
within us the bush
burns. When we are poor
and aware of the inadequacy
of our table, it is to that
uninvited the guest comes.
--R.S. Thomas

And one of the elders of the city said, Speak to us of Good and Evil.
And he answered:

You are good when you are one with yourself.
Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.
For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house
And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
--Kahlil Gibran

I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is--
Christ--for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.
--Gerard Manley Hopkins

All things
are too small
to hold me,
I am so vast

In the Infinite
I reach
for the Uncreated

I have
touched it,
it undoes me
wider than wide

Everything else
is too narrow

You know this well,
you who are also there
--Hadewijch II

If a man
wishes to be sure
of the road he travels on,
he must close his eyes
and walk in the dark.
--Saint John of the Cross

the silence
Holds with its gloved hand
The wild hawk of the mind.
--R.S. Thomas

Any real ecstasy is a sign
you are moving
in the right
direction,

don't let any prude tell
you otherwise.
--Saint Teresa of Avila

"What is grace?"
"All that happens."

I shall go down
to the lovers' well
and wash this wound
that will not heal