there will always be something

always wishing for another path

another face

another something

that's diff'rent from what we be and see

another might

another flight

that might lift us up

from our plight

but No!

there won't be

just can't be

no being what we want

in this humankind un-kind

broken and smashed

greedy and hungering for another's spot

or land 

or life

or what'll ever pull us from our plight

our plight of greed and lust

of all

or bust

how live with it with a smile 

doing our best to make a little peace

bowing our heads 

releasing a tearful cry

thanking God

enjoying our tiny piece of life on this earth

'till death do us cease

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -The epiphany of the body, the incoercible desire for a perfect life, is inscribed in nature.  The contempt and despair of a large part of contemporary thought is simply the passionate repression of that desire.

 -It's an impossible dream, since life endured only by virtue of the flow of creation, destruction, and re-recreation.  The Bible says that one must have confidence in the impossible.  But desire has the power to arouse phantasms while creating parallel paths by which to escape the fear that is the other side of desire.  Eternal life in the hereafter resolves the difficulty.  But the Gospel doesn't invite us to that eternal life of nostalgia, in a white world of concepts.  If eternity doesn't exist here, it has no reality at all there.  Besides, all notions  of space and time disappear.  Saints, whether officially recognized or not, have not sought happiness merely in the hereafter, but in the kingdom here and now on behalf of concrete men and women who were their neighbors.  They couldn't stand by, seeing evil and death reign, for they didn't know anything about the limits of the ego.  If their language seems strange to us, it's because they don't share our idea of identity and because they express human unity in bodily rather than ideological terms.  In the same way, artists, writers, and scholars worthy of the name don't sculpt, write, or carry on research in order to gain future glory but because of their need to create, to escape narrow limitations, to breath deeply, and to express both their pain and a sense of abundance.

  -Above all, Jesus proclaims the transformation of mind and heart here and now.

  -How can we remain true when, even if sincere, we think or act in terms of obligation - that is, what we feel we should think and do, not what we really are?  That's how hypocrisy develops.

  -The illumination proposed by the Bible is directed above all at the conversion of one's mentality.  It represents a liberation of the body and its reflexes.  The word that enters our ears descends into our heart before being expressed by our lips and our physical gestures.