“Do not ask what the world needs
Ask what makes you come alive
and go do that.
Because the world needs people
who have come alive.”
-Howard Thurman

FOR A NEW BEGINNING

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
-John O’Donohue
To Bless the Space Between Us
 

TO THE HOME OF PEACE

To the home of peace
to the field of love
to the land where forgiveness and right relationship meet
we look, O God,
with longing for earth’s children
with compassion for the creatures
with hearts breaking for the nations and people we love.
Open us to visions we have never known
strengthen us for self-givings we have never made
delight us with a oneness we could never have imagined
that we may truly be born of You
makers of peace.
-John Philip Newell 
Praying With the Earth 

REST IN PRAYER

The sun hears the field talking about effort
and the sun
smiles,

 and whispers to
me,

 "Why don't the fields just rest, for
I am willing to do 
everything

to help them 
grow?" 

Rest, my dears, in
prayer.
-St. Catherine of Siena
Love Poems From God
Edited by Daniel Landinsky