Poets & Saints

Scripture  Psalm 16:5 (NRSVUE)  The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;  you hold my lot.Refrain  In God, this moment is enough.Quote / Poem  Richard Rohr  “We do not find God  in the future we are anxiously building,  but in the present we are constantly overlooking.  Grace is not what we earn or achieve—  it is what is already given,  what is quietly present,  what has always been enough.”

Scripture  Psalm 143:10 (NRSVUE)  Teach me the way I should go,  for to you I lift up my soul.Refrain  God leads me even when the path is unclear.Quote / Poem  Macrina Wiederkehr  “Guide me, O God of the journey,  for in the mystery that lies ahead  I cannot travel by sight.  But if You walk with me,  uncertainty becomes a holy place—  a doorway  where trust is born.” 

Scripture  Revelation 21:5 (NRSVUE)  And the one who was seated on the throne said,  “See, I am making all things new.”Refrain  God is making all things new—including me.Quote / Poem  Thomas Merton  “There is in all visible things  a hidden wholeness—  a divine seed  waiting for the moment  it will break open in glory.  Nothing is lost in God’s renewal.  Everything,  in its own time,  is made new.”  

Scripture  Genesis 28:16 (NRSVUE)  Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said,  “Surely the Lord is in this place—  and I did not know it!”Refrain  God is here, in this very moment.Quote / Poem  David Whyte  “Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.  To walk the world awake  is to see the miracle  in what we have come to call ordinary.  The sacred is not elsewhere—  it is here,  waiting for our eyes  to finally open.”  

Scripture  John 17:21 (NRSVUE)  “…that they may all be one.  As you, Father, are in me and I am in you,  may they also be in us…”Refrain  I am invited into union with God.Quote / Poem  Meister Eckhart  “God is always at home.  It is we who have gone out for a walk.  Yet the soul that returns to itself  returns to God,  for the ground of the soul  and the ground of God  are one and the same.  To awaken is to realize  you have never been separate.”

Scripture  Romans 8:16 (NRSVUE)  It is that very Spirit  bearing witness with our spirit  that we are children of God.Refrain  The Spirit speaks within me.Quote / Poem  St. Symeon the New Theologian  “God is not far away.  The fire of the Spirit  shines within your heart,  warming, illuminating,  revealing who you truly are.  Look within,  and you will find the One  who has been looking for you.”