Category: Words of Wisdom

“Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?” – St. Gerard Majella

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? – Mark 8, DRA

Sometimes I Forget

Sometimes I forget.
I forget how beautiful
You are
And how no one
In all the world
Can ever replace you.

When I forget,
I settle
For what is less,
I try to fill that big void
In my heart
With things
That could never fill it
No matter how hard I try
Or how long I look.

When I forget,
I do all sorts
Of foolish things,
Just so I can
Numb that ache
That never seems
To go away,
That seems to tell me more
Than what I can presently
Understand.

In truth,
It is this very ache,
This inner wound
That eventually reminds me
That there is something
Out there that is
Far bigger and more wonderful
Something far more satisfying
Than I can ever dream about.

There is something
There is someone
Who alone
Can reach
The very depths if me,
Who alone can touch
My very soul,
And even if I may forget
I know He will find a way
To bring me home.

“Who can make me happier than God? In him I find everything.” – St. Teresa of the Andes

“Our hearts were made for You, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in you.” – St. Augustine of Hippo

We may not have everything we want, but may we never fail to fight for those things that truly matter in the end.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ and be found in him… – Philippians 3, WEBBE

Sometimes a great crisis comes to test us. Something unexpected happens and we come to question everything we have ever worked for and believed in. A door of opportunity opens and we start to ask ourselves whether we must enter a new path or stay where we are.

Are the things we are currently striving for really worth protecting? Are the things we hold dear really that precious to us to continue holding on to? What if holding on isn’t as easy anymore as it was? What if staying would eventually require a difficult sacrifice on our part?

Must we let go when the journey is no longer convenient or the path no longer strewn with flowers? Must we give up when we are called to be braver and stronger than we think we are?

Times of crisis comes not to take away what we have worked so hard for. It comes to make us see better what we really have and what we are giving up. It comes to show us the things we are willing to sacrifice for, the things we are ready to fight for to the very end.

I’ll Fight For What We Have

I just want to let you know
that I will be fighting
for what we have.
I will not give in,
I will not give up.

Though there are times
when we seem so far apart,
Times when memories of our love
seem to fade away
and I can barely
find a trace
of the happiness we’ve had,
Still I will go on,
I’ll be fighting for what we have.

You had always been the strong one,
You had always been
the one who fought for us,
and now I know
that you want me to be strong, too.
You want me
to have courage
even when everything appears
to be falling apart.

You want me to believe,
and i will fight in order
to believe,
to hope,
to love
to the very end
with you,
beside you,
for you.

I will be fighting for
what we have
and I will not let anything
take away
that one thing
that is truly worth
fighting for.

“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