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Prayer inviting quiet inner space Feb 3, 2001 In desire for the Lord, I look at my book of Year One now past, to find Saturday and I confess my notes O God, in preparation for Sunday, never failing providence I copied, these words to speak with my lips: I confess You, One God ordereth all things both in heaven and earth: good words to set one’s heart to pray, we humbly beseech thee to put away from us all hurtful things and to give us those things which are profitable for us. This gift offers, let my words speak in praise to request, beseeching and to give us those things restoring us to life; for we are like grass, and my love a life-giving way undertaken reverently to be mindful of You, through Jesus Christ our Lord; to reflect on any quiet inner space in which to listen to the Word, living in communion and journeying on this Epiphany. Let us never forget this presence so I shall lest through carelessness fall away from the love of God and cease listening and reading to know the generosity of God resplendent; in goodness as to add my words to the innumerable and wonderful. Spiritual recognitions, intimacies You were there, and I knew you tangible from love and desire, recollected: the fine mind, and education, the religion and spiritual teachings held privately with a modesty in respect for reverent teachers. Your prayers were those I listened to as you offered mention to God for the women of the Church. Jesuit minds have instilled in you, spiritual strength, stranger known to me in the bread and wine--the willingness to wear a silver cross. More beautiful because you express pain and love for the world in its excess, of so much evil. Forgive me I had to notice you in communion, in archtype as woman seeking the divine on the mountain in winter by the Pacific Ocean: Vistas of rock, Route 1, Big Sur Edge of the world, of the awe consistent: We are at the place of prayer tangible Christological; an immensity of the burning fire with white in Trinity, mysterium. (CAPTION) A woman pauses on the top of Mt. Sinai Egypt Photo: Anonymous |