The Eloquence of Truth. Father Ralph Wright

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      the handling of the mind

      resembles more

      twin squirrels

      chasing each other

      on either side

      of a tree

      than crashes of thunder

      waking us at midnight

      to Wagnerian lightning

      GROUND FOR JOY

      My past lies

      in the merciful hands of God

      my future

      in his wise love

      the present moment

      in which I live

      is of no duration

      how then may fear win

      mastery over my joy?

      GOD LAUGHING

      God laughing

      me into being

      and you too –

      a joke to remember.

      the mystery of light

      GOD HAS CALLED US OUT OF DARKNESS

      God has called us out of darkness

      To the wonder of his light.

      See your dignity, O Christian,

      Rescued from eternal night.

      See the glory of your calling,

      Brothers, sisters of the Lord,

      Calling God himself your Father

      Through the love he has outpoured.

      From the moment that he forms us

      In the womb, until we die

      We are his eternal children

      With a destiny on high.

      May we live by this great vision,

      May we share this gift of sight,

      May we serve beyond the darkness

      All who hunger for the light.

      Turn away from all corruption

      Be a sign before the world

      Of the love the Father shows us

      In his gentle mighty Word.

      Be the light upon the lampstand,

      Be the city on the hill.

      Be the men and women toiling,

      Seeking but the Father’s will.

      Father, hear your children call you

      In the name of Christ your Son;

      Send the Spirit whom he promised

      That in him we may be one.

      Then the world will come to know you

      In the Son who came and died,

      For your love will be reflected

      In the mirror of our lives.

      THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

      only a thin

      film of glass

      protects the moth

      as it bangs

      again and again

      against the light

      in the dark night

      from the sizzle

      of extinction

      CONCEIVE

      to bring

      and to have brought

      into being

      through God

      one called

      to live forever

      intimately

      with God

      what a stunning

      mind-scalding

      thing to do

      and to have done

      could anything

      conceivably

      be greater –

      none

      WOMAN

      within her

      and of her being

      comes one to be

      who will not cease

      she speaks each day

      God’s Word made men

      uttered again, again

      and again

      into our silence

      hers is a dignity

      that none may measure

      hers a patience

      refined by fire

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