i sit with You

but it's You 

Who sit with me

not only sitting

but preparing the space

arranging chairs

providing food

for our conversation in silence:

interiority swept clean 

calmed to tiredness

for spiritual rest

the emptiness packed

with peace and solitude 

*Our discovery of God is, in a way, God's discovery of us.

-Thomas Merton

*We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

-Thomas Merton

*In order to know and love God as He is, we must have God dwelling in us in a new way, not only in His creative power but in His mercy, not only in His greatness but in His littleness, by which He empties Himself and comes down to us to be empty in our emptiness, and so fill us in His fullness.

-Thomas Merton

*Nothing Can Come Between Us

let's not talk of money

let us forget the world

4 a moment let's just revel

in our eternal comradery

in my Heart I know

there will never be a day

that I don't remember

the times we shared

u were a friend

and being a friend 2 me

was not easy or fashionable

regardless of how popular

I become u remain

my unconditional friend

unconditional in its truest sense

did u think I would forget

did u 4 one moment dream

that I would ignore u

if so remember this from here 2 forever

nothing can come between us

-Tupac Shakur