OF YOU MY HEART HAS SPOKEN

O my soul It is time now To uncork The old wineskin And pour away That which has gone sour The ancient bitter Wounding word Offences given and received Not yet fully forgiven The tiny drops of resentment Remaining Resistance to life Fear of love Sediment of sorrow All negative thought And guilt Time now To cast aside The stiffened leather That can no longer hold The New Wine of Christ To peel away The protective layers Of over-ordered living And like Mary Be free-blown in the Spirit And live like heaven Has already come to me And I to heaven +++ Here we have an anchor for our soul, as sure as it is firm, and reaching right through beyond the veil where Jesus has entered before us and on our behalf (Hebrews 6)

i Malware In his computer Malword In his soul Like a poisoned spear Embedded Malady Malfunction Virus Eating its way To the core Working subtly Slickly hiding A lifetime Now rising From the vault Of his netherworld Poised to possess Completely ii “I abhor you” She said to the boy Frustrated by him Not meaning it – perhaps And for all the good  That followed The sensitive child  Received it Believed in it Absorbed it Into his humus Keeping it Like a Word of God Become flesh In him Disliked Disdained Maybe even hated Darnel among the wheat It is this that battles With God for his soul This lie iii I am the boy I am the man The boy become a man Of many years Another man A stranger A man with Hard worked hands Holds my face In a public place “You’re beautiful” He says Like a prophecy From on High This cure This stunning cure Word become flesh This truth By which all shackles Will be gone By which the war Will finally be won The harvest done "You shall be a crown of beauty  in the han

Jesus in this moment Jesus only In this moment I choose this moment I accept it and love it In this moment My heart is lifted up In adoration, gratitude, praise In this moment I repent completely Of all my sins Everything that keeps me At a distance from You My Jesus Take to Yourself All my desires My addictions My deceptions The cravings That lure me into Settling for less Than You In this moment I am all Yours My Beautiful Jesus All Yours And You Are ALL And all my beseechings Are Yours And all my people Are Yours In this moment This present moment this eternal moment I take the innocent Love songs of the world And sing them to You My Lord My Life My Love My ALL In all

I taste the rain I feel the fire Rain on my face Fire on my shoulder Fuoco di San Antonio Blessed am I That a Saint is attached To my pain Saint of the Desert Saint of solitude Saint of all that is lost I am widowed I am orphaned I am childless I am nothing And You my Lord Are everything You are in everything In me In the innocent  Love songs of the world That I sing to You

  Third Sunday of Lent - John 4:5-42   “Jesus, tired by the journey, sat straight down by the well.” Here we witness one of the most human moments in the life of Jesus. In His tiredness and His thirst, He is one with us and represents all the weariness and thirst of our lives. The first word that He speaks in this gospel reading is, “give me a drink!” So, before we go looking for anything from Him, we focus on what we can give Him. In what way, can you quench the thirst of Jesus? What does His thirst mean to you? Later in Lent we will hear Him cry from the Cross, “I thirst!” It’s not just water He needs. He thirsts for you, longs for you to come closer to Him. You want to come close to Jesus but there are obstacles in the way and His desire is to remove the obstacles, to bring you through them and beyond them. In the first reading the people were “tormented by thirst”, a very strong expression that also is not just about the thirst for water; it is about the deepest yearnings of the

  O living water let me lay down the burdens of my life, the burden of my sin, the conflicts and complexities, the unanswerable questions, unsolvable problems my battles my fears my anxieties. Wash over me and refresh what is tired, mend what is broken. Dear Father, make holy our lives by sending down your Spirit upon us like the dewfall, the Spirit descending upon bread and wine to transform them into the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, for our salvation and that of the whole world. Amen

  The "WHY?" Of Jesus on the Cross Cries out From the rubble Of the earthquake The devastation of war From every single Tortured, broken life The Silence of God The Father For the Son And every other one Sacred Silence Mystery Of the newborn orphan Lifted from destruction One precious life Sign of Hope Sign of God Aya