We get help from our mystic and poet friends today as we celebrate love and passion: love of self, love of others and love of God. Lee Ann is joined in this episode by poet-lawyer, Andrea Grill. Enjoy this poetry in all its naked beauty!

The Works and Their Poetry:

 

The Hope of Loving by Meister Eckhart

 

What keeps us alive, what allows us to endure?

I think it is the hope of loving

Or being loved.

 

I heard a fable once about the sun going on a journey

To find its source, and how the moon wept

Without her lover’s

Warm gaze.

 

We weep when light does not reach our hearts.  We wither

Like fields if someone close

Does not rain their

Kindness

Upon us.

 

Love Does That by Meister Eckhart

 

All day long a little burro labors, sometimes

With heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries

About things that bother only

Burros.

 

And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting

Than physical labor.

 

Once in a while a kind monk comes

To her stable and brings

A pear, but more

Than that,

 

He looks into the burro’s eyes and touches her ears

 

And for a few seconds the burro is free

And even seems to laugh

 

Because love does

That.

 

Love frees.

 

“Dig Here,” the Angel Said by St. John of the Cross

 

She caught me off guard when my soul said to me,

“Have we met?”

 

So surprised I was to hear her speak like that

I chuckled.

 

She began to sing a tale: “There was once a hardworking man

Who used to worry so much because he could

not feed and clothe his children and

wife the way he wanted.

 

There was a beautiful little chapel in the village

where the man lived and one day while

he was praying, an angel

appeared.

 

The angel said, ‘Follow me.’  And he did, out into an ancient forest.

‘Now dig here,” the angel said.  And the man felt strength in

his limbs he had not known since youth and found a

lost treasure, and his relationship

with the world changed.”

 

Finding our soul’s beauty does that—gives us

tremendous freedom

from worry.

 

“Dig here,” the angel said—

“in your soul,

In your

Soul.”

 

 

God Says Yes to Me by Kaylin Haught

 

I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic

and she said yes

I asked her if it was okay to be short

and she said it sure is

I asked her if I could wear nail polish

or not wear nail polish

and she said honey

she calls me that sometimes

she said you can do just exactly

what you want to

Thanks God I said

And is it even okay if I don’t paragraph

my letters

Sweetcakes God said

who knows where she picked that up

what I’m telling you is

Yes Yes Yes