The Eloquence of Truth. Father Ralph Wright

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      O Lord, your word will be my life

      And through my life be spoken.

      THE FATHER UTTERS

      The Father utters

      a Word

      which a virgin

      receives

      the Spirit speaks

      and the virgin who listens

      utters

      the Word

      heard

      once by the prophets

      the Word now speaks

      while the world listens

      to the mercy and myriad

      wonders the Father

      utters

      ANNUNCIATION

      The acute load of a great joy

      needles my heart

      and seethes within the tissues of my brain —

      the thought that this the face of man became,

      on some brief long-forgotten day,

      the face of God — and will remain.

      O may this joy beneath life's puzzling goad

      each day explode!

      BECOMING MAN

      The humble moment

      of total fusion

      in darkness

      and silence

      seen by no one

      heard by no one

      felt by no one

      a greater detonation

      than any nuclear fission

      and for a long while yet

      no one will know it has happened.

      WHEN GOD MADE YOU

      When

      God

      made

      you

      there

      was

      silence

      in

      heaven

      for

      five

      minutes.

      Then

      God

      said:

      “How come I never thought of that before?”

      BIRTHDAY UTTERANCE

      I have great joy

      in knowing that you

      have been

      born

      into the world

      because

      having been breathed

      by God

      into existence

      you will never

      be able

      – like a bubble –

      to pop

      suddenly

      back into nothingness

      welcome

      to this one great

      champagne

      dancing

      party of being

      and be

      always

      alive and utterly

      grateful to Him

      who

      simply freely spontaneously

      needlessly and

      eternally

      utters

      THE MIST LIFTS

      the mist lifts

      for a moment

      over the why of creation

      as I see

      God

      making each person

      with the identical

      wonder and joy

      of making

      Jesus

      EVERY CHRISTIAN MOTHER

      every Christian mother

      watches God

      in her first-born

      come

      into the world

      and with amazed

      shocked

      wonder

      knows that the mystery

      of Love

      eluding

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