conversing in the cave 

in the cave of myself

echoes throw back a voice

a shadow holding the presence of itself

i try conversing with God

but receive pure silence

or is it the patient Voice

filtering through my noise?

*Sometimes we are the first eucharist a non-believer eats on their way to Jesus.

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -A religion can be exported as an aspect of colonialist pressure but still give birth to freedom and love.

  -Our spiritual struggle never ends.  No one knows from what direction the Spirit will emerge.

  -When faith becomes what it is, interior liberation, it is spontaneously creative.  The Gospel is corrosive; had you forgotten?

  -By looking on Jesus as a free person I am able to make myself his ally, because he is on the side of the poor and the weak, and against the multinationals and the oil companies and the coffee lobby - that is against everything that keeps men and women from being neighbors, from becoming close to each other in the present moment.

  -The absence of Jesus is the sign of God's love.  It prevents any of our cherished schemes from becoming finally installed.