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Happy Easter!
Erie
And he spent the night in prayer to God. —Luke 6:12b
“Under the silence of the stars, hid from the light of the sun and the freneticism of the day, there is the possibility of slipping into the holy place and pouring out the contents of our hearts with honesty and authenticity. Sleep is always a mighty temptation, as it was for the disciples who could not resist it though Jesus asked that they stay awake for but one hour. Something about the solitude of the night makes prayer difficult, but it is that very solitude in blackness that can become the most sacred time for prayer.
It can become the time when the human heart meets heaven without any sham, pretense, or superficiality. The darkness deftly slices through the excuses and defenses that keep the shade over the window of our soul. There in the thick shadows, the shade is lifted and in the hushed beat of nighttime the light of God floods over us. Suddenly, we have no desire to leave the place of prayer. We want only to surrender our soul to the holiness around us. Miraculously, when we awaken to the brightness of day after a long night’s prayer, we feel we have been made whole.”
O God, let me crash the night with my prayers until I am enveloped by the light of heaven.”
~Renee Miller
From ExploreFaith.com, 2006
Thoughts…
“The word Resurrection has many meanings; among them is “renewal”. A renewal of heart, of purpose, of Love, of Grace in our lives is a resurrection of spirit. Mary and the disciples witnessed the ultimate act of creation in the resurrection: God renewing Himself through Himself as Christ Risen. This demonstration was the living Spirit of Love that promised the same to all: renewal of heart and transformation of being in Christ. In a very real sense we experience Christ when the tomb is empty: when we are so empty of ourselves that we are ready to be filled with God and the work of God in us.”
~Fr. Michael Adams and Rosaries of Divine Union
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Springing by Marie Ponset (1961)
In a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers.
Swimming aimlessly is luxury just as walking
loudly up a shallow stream is.
As we lean over the deep well, we whisper.
Friends at hearths are drawn to the one warm air;
strangers meet on beaches drawn to the one wet sea.
What wd it be to be water, one body of water
(what water is is another mystery) (We are
water divided.) It wd be a self without walls,
with surface tension, specific gravity a local
exchange between bedrock and cloud of falling and rising,
rising to fall, falling to rise.
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Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window, into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and
changing everything carefully
spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and from moving New and
Old things, while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there)and
without breaking anything.
~e.e.cummings
Happy Spring! Blessed Easter!
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