WOMAN AT THE WELL...

Woman at The Well

Woman... 
 seen 
 and known by Jesus...

Who is He for you?

Do you note the human face upon Him?

Is there no place for you to hide?

Do you stand naked and trembling...
discovered...
unsettled ?

Those eyes of Mercy are gentle...
Love is not judging.

Welcome the stranger within...

Acknowledge your inner feelings,

Allow Grace it's entry to heal.

It's okay to be frail and fragile.

Be in His Presence...

Not seeking...

Just Being...

Love is Present..
Love heals...
Love makes all things new!

Enter into the Light
Be healed.

Ephesians 3: verses 19-21

LET GOD LOVE YOU!

Let God Love You

Be silent

Be still...
alone
 empty before God

Say nothing

 Ask nothing

Be still...

Let your God love you.

He knows

He understands

He loves you with a constant love

He longs to "look upon you"  with His love.

Quiet...

Still..

Be..

Let God love you!

"Be still and know I AM God!"

Be still and know I AM...

Be still and know...

Be still...

Be...

A PARADOX...Wisdom

Wisdom Knows

Emptiness... fills me,

Silence... greets me,

Exhaustion... carries me.

YOU...Who are everywhere...

Elude me!

Is prayer the muscle...

and action futile?

Is the answer in Being...not doing?

Will letting go...
bring everything needed?

WISDOM knows!

May Your will be done...

with Acceptance...

In Serenity,

In Wisdom,

In Courage.
Amen

TUNNELS OF MY NIGHT...

THE PATH OF LIGHT

Jesus sought to walk  His path of Light

through darkened tunnels of my night.

My heart cried out to Loves own face

To heal the wounds the years did trace upon this child,

 that, left to seek her own pursuits,

would stumble, fall, and rise again

to find she had a destiny.

Can it be true that Love and Light

were leading onward toward the Night so dark, 

so deep, so filled with fright?

Yes! It is true that Light pervades the deepest pool

where unknown forces seek to rule.

Our heritage of Adam's root gives way to Word,that cuts the ties 

of sin and death, of fear and lies and shame.

The Word of God does enter in  to go 

where no one else has ever been!

Creation once more takes it's part

with patient stillness from the heart.

It's all so new, I dare to say,

"The Lord had been there faithfully

before I sought Him in my prayer"

Then, came a time when once I knew that Light

 would shine all through the darkened ways to make me new!

It's just another step with Him

Who opens to Eternity.  And I

 my glorious Lord do see,

With eyes of Faith He gives to me, 

His hands, His feet...are nailed and torn
for me to rise on Easter morn. 

TAKE MY HAND BLESSED MOTHER

Take My Hand O Blessed Mother

Take my hand o' blessed Mother, 

hold me firmly, 'lest i fall.

I grow nervous while walking

and on Thee i humbly call.

Guide me over every crossing,

watch me when I'm on the stairs,

let me know that You're beside me,

listen to my fervent prayers.

Bring me to my destination

 safely, along the way.

Bless my every undertaking

and my duties for the day.

 And when evening creeps upon me

I'll never fear to be alone.

Once again, O Blessed Mother

take my hand to lead me home.

Amen

Author unknown

DO WE BECOME EUCHARIST...?

 On Being Bread

Jesus prayed..."This is my Body given up for you.
Do this in memory of Me."

What must we do... to become Bread?

Don was not taking food during his last days.
United to Jesus in mind, body and Spirit,

He was Being bread for others.

We watched in humility, as this peace filled man,
husband and father,
heroically gave of his self
 to us and others...
to our children and grandchildren

 ...for their healing and salvation.

He could not make a move to comfort his own body

as prisoner of a wheelchair...
Nor even voice his need...

Yet... there was so much Love emanating,

sparkling through his eyes!

I often wondered what he saw in those around him
that would illuminate such Light from within.

Must we die...to become bread?

He was a gentle, patient, loving husband and father...
always willing to serve another...
Always full of joy...
playful with the grandchildren!

Must we die to self...
to be bread for the other?

He was called by name!
He heard that call and answered.

Must we die...to be Bread for the other?
Maybe... to open a portal into Eternity
in Holy submission to our Destiny.


"This is why we never become discouraged or give up.
 Even though our physical being is gradually becoming weaker...
Yet the Spirit within is made anew each day!"
2 Corinthians: 4, verse 16

                                                      Jean  Mahan ofs
                                                                 12-6-2015

I THIRST..

I Thirst

I see God's glory in the other and...sigh!!!

Not in jealousy or envy,  I...

In poverty...
           in hunger...
                 in thirst...

                                                 To drink of that same well.

Across the desert I must go

                                      and leave all behind...

                       

The Food I seek is to be found

                                                  in leaving

                                                                     self 

                                                                                    behind.

                       10-2-2004