Poets & Saints

Psalm 34:17 (NRSVUE)  

When the righteous cry for help,  

the Lord hears  

and rescues them from all their troubles.

God hears me in every breath.

Teresa of Ávila  

“Prayer is not thinking much,  

but loving much.  

It is the quiet turning of the heart  

toward the One  

who has been listening  

since before you learned to speak.”

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Psalm 16:5 (NRSVUE)  

The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;  

you hold my lot.

In God, this moment is enough.

Richard Rohr  

“We do not find God  

in the future we are anxiously building,  

but in the present we are constantly overlooking.  

Grace is not what we earn or achieve—  

it is what is already given,  

what is quietly present,  

what has always been enough.”

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Psalm 143:10 (NRSVUE)  

Teach me the way I should go,  

for to you I lift up my soul.

God leads me even when the path is unclear.

Macrina Wiederkehr  

“Guide me, O God of the journey,  

for in the mystery that lies ahead  

I cannot travel by sight.  

But if You walk with me,  

uncertainty becomes a holy place—  

a doorway  

where trust is born.” 

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Revelation 21:5 (NRSVUE)  

And the one who was seated on the throne said,  

“See, I am making all things new.”

God is making all things new—including me.

Thomas Merton  

“There is in all visible things  

a hidden wholeness—  

a divine seed  

waiting for the moment  

it will break open in glory.  

Nothing is lost in God’s renewal.  

Everything,  

in its own time,  

is made new.”  

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Genesis 28:16 (NRSVUE)  

Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said,  

“Surely the Lord is in this place—  

and I did not know it!”

God is here, in this very moment.

David Whyte  

“Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.  

To walk the world awake  

is to see the miracle  

in what we have come to call ordinary.  

The sacred is not elsewhere—  

it is here,  

waiting for our eyes  

to finally open.”  

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John 17:21 (NRSVUE)  

“…that they may all be one.  

As you, Father, are in me and I am in you,  

may they also be in us…”

I am invited into union with God.

Meister Eckhart  

“God is always at home.  

It is we who have gone out for a walk.  

Yet the soul that returns to itself  

returns to God,  

for the ground of the soul  

and the ground of God  

are one and the same.  

To awaken is to realize  

you have never been separate.”

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Romans 8:16 (NRSVUE)  

It is that very Spirit  

bearing witness with our spirit  

that we are children of God.

The Spirit speaks within me.

St. Symeon the New Theologian  

“God is not far away.  

The fire of the Spirit  

shines within your heart,  

warming, illuminating,  

revealing who you truly are.  

Look within,  

and you will find the One  

who has been looking for you.”  

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Acts 17:28 (NRSVUE)  

For “In him we live and move and have our being,”  

as even some of your own poets have said,  

“For we too are his offspring.”

God is in all things, and all things are in God.

Teilhard de Chardin  

“By virtue of creation,  

not one of us is ever far from God.  

The divine presence  

is at the heart of matter  

and at the center of our soul.  

To live is to sense that Presence—  

to discover God  

in everything that is growing,  

everything that is moving,  

everything that simply is.”  

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Genesis 12:2 (NRSVUE)  

I will make of you a great nation,  

and I will bless you, and make your name great,  

so that you will be a blessing.

The blessing I receive becomes the blessing I give.

John O’Donohue  

“May the gifts you have been given  

find their way into the world.  

May your life be a channel of grace,  

a quiet river of blessing  

that nourishes what is withering  

and awakens what is waiting to bloom.”

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Isaiah 41:10 (NRSVUE)  

Do not fear, for I am with you;  

do not be afraid, for I am your God.  

I will strengthen you, I will help you;  

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

God holds me when I cannot hold myself.

Frederick Buechner  

“Faith is not a clenched fist  

but an open hand.  

It is not holding on for dear life  

but letting yourself be held.  

For underneath our lives,  

so fragile and fierce,  

are the everlasting arms—  

stronger than fear,  

softer than grace,  

wider than we can imagine.”  

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