Category: Poems

“He came to this poor earth of ours to carry on an exchange; to say to us, as only the Good God could say: ‘you give me your humanity, and I will give you my Divinity; you give me your time, and I will give you My eternity; you give me your broken heart, and I will give you Love; you give me your nothingness, and I will give you My all.” – Fulton J. Sheen, The Eternal Galilean

Hidden in You

If it be my strength
that prevents me from loving you,
then let me be weak;
let me have no one else
to depend on to
but you,
let me be able to
follow your leading
and know you’re that one person
whom I can lean on to.

If it be my riches
that prevent me from loving you,
then let me be poor;
let my life be simple
so I can be free
to be with you,
to notice the things
that you do,
and to receive all things
you want me
to have from you.

Strip me of everything
that will ever prevent me
from knowing you.
Take away all things
that will ever cause me to run away
and thereby prevent me
from being found by you.
Grant me a life
hidden and simple,
pure and true,
that I may spend all my days
beside you,
strong with your own strength,
rich in your very love,
possessing nothing
yet having all things and more
so much more
in you.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings… – Psalm 17, WEBBE

“To the extent that we know this God made man, we come to love him madly. I would like you to know him in order to be truly in love with him… How not to love this Jesus of our soul? He is uncreated Beauty, eternal Wisdom, Goodness, Life, Love… Oh! Love Jesus. Who can love you better? He thirsts for your heart” – St. Teresa of the Andes

In This Dark and Lonely World

In this dark and lonely world…
I found you.
I found someone
Who will take away all my masks
And see me for who I really am…
See me without judging me
Or accusing me…
See me without backing away
Being either frightened or ashamed…
See me for who I really am
And love me just the same.

In this dark and lonely world
Where everyone’s so busy
Trying to make their dreams come true,
You came.
You noticed me and at last I found someone who is interested in my own dreams…
The truth is I have forgotten them.
But you made me remember
And everything that seemed so far away and impossible just became nearer and more real.
They became real because your faith in me was true.

In this dark and lonely world
Something happened
Someone came
Light has touched me
And changed me
It entered so deep within my heart
And unfroze me.
And in that moment,
I knew what it’s like to be happy
Because
You found me
Because
You took me in
Because
You loved me.

“In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.” – John 1, WEBBE

“Everything on earth, dear Lucho, seems to shrink, to lose value before the Divinity which, like an infinite Sun, continues to shine upon my miserable soul with its rays. Oh, if you could go to the depths of my soul even for an instant, you’d see me captivated by that Beauty, by that incomprehensible Goodness. How I’d love to bind the hearts of creatures and surrender them to divine Love! You’ve never known the heaven that I, through God’s mercy, possess in my heart. Yes. I have a heaven in my soul, because God is there, and God is heaven… When people love, they can’t help but speaking of their loved one. What happens then if the one loved has within Himself every possible perfection? I don’t know how I can do a thing but contemplate and love Him. What can you expect, if Jesus Christ that Mad Lover has made me fall madly in love with Himself?”
– St. Teresa of the Andes to her brother Lucho

Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God. – St. Francis de Sales

God Wants To Give You More

Do not look to your past griefs
for your heart will only be burdened today,
do not look at other people’s lives
for your soul will only be filled with regret.

But look at this moment,
look at what you have.
See how God has carried you through
and is still with you now.

Look towards the future,
the future He has made for you,
see the things you can still possess,
the person you can still become.

God can restore
more than all that you have ever lost
God can give
more than you could have ever dreamed.

All is not yet the end
when you have God,
When God takes your hand,
eternity has just begun!

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on towards the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 3, WEBBE

He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
-Psalm 23

If my soul has one true desire, it is to be in Your presence Lord, to see your face, and to remain always upon Your loving arms.

Linger

I know what they say
About moving on
About the way of life
And how time flies
I know there is much to do
But may I linger here awhile?

I know how things
Must come and go
How we must do
What we can do
To carry on
I know how all things change
But may I linger here awhile?

Let me linger for a while
Here where time stands still
And there is just you and I,
Where the sun begins to rise
As we walk along the shore
Where the breeze is gentle
And where the waves are kind.

Let me linger here with you
Where all is pure and rare
Where we need not hurry
Where we need not worry
Where we can let all
the beautiful things in
and leave all the shadows behind.

Let us linger here while we can
Let us etch this moment
Until it can never be erased.
For here is where I see
Here is where I live
Here is where I have you
And you have all of me.

We do all we can to avoid our crosses, all the problems life sends our way. But someday we will realize… the greatest treasures we can find here are right within the very mess of things, and just amidst all the painful and troubled times we were able to overcome.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. – 2 Corinthians 4, WEBBE

In This Dark Night

We are in the dark night, you and I,
and these are truly troubled times;
yet this is the night I knew you
and this is the night you knew all that’s mine.

In these troubled times,
you saw my weakness and my strength,
and you understood me far better
than on days when the sun was bright.

Yes, in this dark night we became closer,
as we held each other, you and I;
We became allies, we became friends,
as we fought together, side by side.

When the day comes, as it surely will,
I will gather the treasures I’ve found in the night,
in the darkness where I knew how to love,
as we held each other, you and I.