VI. Faith in God begins Our meditation moves to contemplation: today let it be unto me; so morning prayer starts. I ponder my desire for release from earthly pain, find out about flesh again, discovering the Spirit holds other fruits: Wait on the Lord. Can one know, glimpse-- the great yes of vastness greater than mountains and hills. Creation, all being. Spark, star burning bright, the soul groans Simple Joys... Frail Years (2002) Old age is 90--her eyesight dimming, we visit the ducks with ducklings and she shows the sharpened insight of age, looking towards practical things like feeding them. That will make them come see us. They will visit. Simple joys. Motion in the water’s stream. The young lives of the birds s refreshing, ia drink of coolness in Spring. We two are learning friendship, company and humankind’s frail years are visited upon us (CAPTION) St. Benedict:detail of a postcard 1684 “Benedict sees the whole world in a beam of light shortly before his death.”