Sunday, 29 January 2012

There is one thing I ask of the Lord:



"There is one thing I ask of the Lord,
For this I long...To live in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life...
To savour the sweetness of the Lord,
to behold His temple.......
Examine me Lord, try me, O test my
heart and mind...For Your love is
before my eyes and I will walk according
to Your Truth..."
psalms 26.v.4, Ps 25.v.2-3)

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

You are here:


Lord You are always here.
You more than any know my failings
But You more than any,love me despite
of them...that I know, You are here.
Sometimes You correct me, and in those times
you see just how sad my heart becomes.
Not because of Your correction but those failings
touch Your heart, wounding You...all that I most love.
When I can't see You, when I can't touch You,
the pain is immence but You are here.
One day there will be no more separations, no more tears...
Just peace because before me, all around me, above me,
below me...I will whisper, You will whisper...
You are here xxx

Saturday, 21 January 2012

I see You in everything, everything holds You looking back:


I hear You in the wind
I experience You in the stillness
I see the sunrise and inside You elevate
my spirit to reach out to You, ever forward.
I feel You in the raindrops in the
gentle, tiny raindrops...Stretching out
to grasp one...Nothing but a raindrop,
yet it feeds and brings forth life.
I see You in the clouds, how this heart
would wish to be above the clouds but even
there You are not seen...You are closer still.
I see You in the rainbow, as it majestically
bows across the earth, how it makes my heart
leap with joy...I hear all the promises it contains
from Your WORD alone.
I experience You in the little flowers, their perfume
gives out a praise of thanksgiving for their being.
I see you in the majestic cedar, reaching tall to Heaven
I see You in all suffering...When a heart before me is
broken with suffering...Lord help me, how my heart touches
You in touching them!
Jesus no longer do I just see but in all things I see You looking back.

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Lord, just what You give me:

Never a look beyond me
out of my little sphere, if I could fill another, God would not keep me here.
Only to take what He gives me, meek as a little child...
Questioning nought of that reason, joyful or reconciled.
Only to do what He bids me, patiently gladly today.
Taking no thought for the morrow, leaning on Him all the way.
Only to watch in the working, lest I should miss His smile,
only to still earth's voices, watching for His all the while.
Only to look at Him ever, only to sit at my Lords feet...
All that He sayeth to do it, there shall my life be complete.

Thursday, 12 January 2012

I live, not I:

I live no longer to do my own will, but that Gods Will may be lived out through me without exception.

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Blessed Mother may we, at the threshold of this New Year, find in You,
through You, the greatest courage to follow where we are called, humility to hear those inner whispers, bow low our fragile hearts, to give our yes as You once gave Your yes, to God, to our Heavenly Father. May we step forward, Truth being our one guide,love being our one responce, gentleness, ever guiding our narrow path. May we not be detured from the Way, the Word...Our total breath and reasoning for this life. You alone have made this journey before us, met with all we now meet...You alone know what is called for to walk upon such a Holy path set.
No matter how bewildering,no matter how difficult, how lonely...May it always be the path we are given courage to walk...We link to you Blessed Mother, through our
little rosary, beads of courage, beads of love, beads of devotion...Let us at the threshold of this new year, draw closer to Your breast, be comforted by Your heart beat, knowing You alone will protect us, petition for us, to Your Beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who we so wish to walk as one with to our Heavenly home,whom is truly set the face of our Good God, our Heavenly Father our one meaning for our life our total hope and joy.