To be with

Sweet Lord, I'm missing people dear to me. I think of their faces, voices, the way they move and miss being with them even more. I long to spend time with them. Then I remember Sr Rose and how physically cut off she now is from all her loved ones. Yet she does spend time with them all, each and every one, in You, in the Eucharist. Teach me-that when I miss people I love so much, I can find them so easily in You - we can still spend time together in You. How I long for You. The desire You create in me is so strong it is almost painful dear dear sweet Lord- how do you create us like this, it is such a tremedous gift.

"When we gather at the Table, we are closer than our breath,
Even nearer than the angels, when we touch His very flesh,
Dwelling in each other's presence, I will hold you close inside,
Every soul in Heaven and Earth is now present in the Body of Christ."
(CD Pursue Me, Danielle Rose)

The Trinity

"If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them."

Peter Kreeft

Delight in weakness

Dearest, dearest Lord.
I am so weak, but I rest in You, and am so happy like this. This is a grace you have given - to delight in my frailty, my vulnerability in You. Oh what a sweet sweet taste is this. You ask me, 'am I not always more glorious than you could ever imagine?' and all I can answer to that is yes, yes sweet Lord.

As I sink into the waves

Fearful me again :(
You know my greatest fears, and only You can take them away.
They are so beyond me, I'm tired Lord.
In my mind over and over again I hear the words
'Your life is not yours for losing',
'You belong to me',
and it gives me such consolation.
Teach me that I have no claim on my life,
and so it is not mine for losing.
Please teach me till this truth is as the air I breathe.

'Oh God come to my aid,
Oh Lord make haste to help me'

Adoro te devote

(St Thomas Aquinas)

1. Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore,
Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more,
See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart
Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.

2. Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived:
How says trusty hearing? that shall be believed;
What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do;
Truth himself speaks truly or there's nothing true.

3. On the cross thy godhead made no sign to men,
Here thy very manhood steals from human ken:
Both are my confession, both are my belief,
And I pray the prayer of the dying thief.

4. I am not like Thomas, wounds I cannot see,
But can plainly call thee Lord and God as he;
Let me to a deeper faith daily nearer move,
Daily make me harder hope and dearer love.

5. O thou our reminder of Christ crucified,
Living Bread, the life of us for whom he died,
Lend this life to me then: feed and feast my mind,
There be thou the sweetness man was meant to find.

6. Bring the tender tale true of the Pelican;
Bathe me, Jesu Lord, in what thy bosom ran---
Blood whereof a single drop has power to win
All the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

7. Jesu, whom I look at shrouded here below,
I beseech thee send me what I thirst for so,
Some day to gaze on thee face to face in light
And be blest for ever with thy glory's sight.
Amen.