contemplation

remembering You

by open fire

with  listening heart

remembering You

as of long ago

when we where young

at play in grace

as of long ago

when I was Yours

with fuller heart

and all my mind

when I was Yours

until the end of Time

again to be

in your embrace

until I remember You 

till the end of time

*Every story has a story.  Every story hides a story.

*...there are no pain-free options.  You have to choose which future regret you're going to live.

  -Andrew Anthony

*...you never get a second chance to make a good first impression.

  -Peter Galbraith

*Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it's faced.

  -James Baldwin

*A country that does not undestand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.

  -Antony Beevor

*Let there be peace on earth...with natural and artificial flavors.

  -words on a Jones-Zilch soda bottle

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -Before the infinity of God, all doctrines and institutions reveal their contingency.  As throughout the Bible, the prophets are those who never leave existing structures intact.  They can at first seem to be primarily destructive, but they create an uneasiness that allows for a new birth.

  -The prophet receives the Gospel not as knowledge but as a word for the present instant, implying both commitment and criticism.

  -It then becomes evident that faith does not tolerate injustice, that God is not on the side of legal justice or envy but demands interior justice.  Prayer can no longer nourish fantasy or veil reality.  In this way the Gospel, read by the prophet in communion with the Church and against that within the Church which resists life and the Spirit, will rouse us from a religion of sloth that seemed to guarantee our relationship to God while leaving us absent to our neighbor.