Esperanza

Where is the Hope?

Then I realized 

hope sees what I can't see

Seeds grow beneath the earth

and we wait

Light pulses at the edge of dawn

Morning has sprung

and then it begins....

Laughter Came From Every Brick

Just these two words He spoke

changed my life,

“Enjoy Me.”

What a burden I thought I was to carry -

a crucifix, as did He.

Love once said to me, “I know a song,

would you like to hear it?”

And laughter came from every brick in the street

and from every pore

in the sky.

After a night of prayer, He

changed my life when

He sang,

“Enjoy Me.”

- St Teresa of Avila

From ‘Love Poems From God‘ by Daniel Ladinsky.
Copyright © 1999 by Daniel Ladinsky. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Consumed in Grace

I first saw God when I was a child, six years of age.

the cheeks of the sun were pale before Him,

and the earth acted as a shy

girl, like me.

Divine light entered my heart from His love

that did never fully wane,

though indeed, dear, I can understand how a person’s 

faith can at time flicker,

for what is the mind to do

with something that becomes the mind’s ruin:

a God that consumes us

in His grace.

I have seen what you want;

it is there,

a Beloved of infinite 

tenderness.

-St Catherine of Siena

From ‘Love Poems From God‘ by Daniel Ladinsky. 
Copyright © 1999 by Daniel Ladinsky. Reprinted by permission of the author.

The Sanctuary

It could be said that God’s foot is so vast
That this entire earth is but a
field on His
toe,

and all the forests in this world
came from the same root of just
a single hair
of His.

What then is not a sanctuary?
Where can I not kneel
and pray at a shrine
made holy by His
presence?

- St Catherine of Siena

From ‘Love Poems From God‘ by Daniel Ladinsky. 
Copyright © 1999 by Daniel Ladinsky. Reprinted by permission of the author.