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Sam Kline Sam Kline felt fine as he drove out to the store As he had done a hundred times before And he didn’t give a thought to the ticket that he bought Till He saw 10 million dollars he had scored But soon his new found luck would hit him like a truck His life would only go from bad to...

Going to sit down with a candle put my mind at ease Set aside the people I’ve been trying to please Open my heart to the Spirit where only God can see Close my eyes and let go say my sacred word Thoughts are slipping by me my mind is not disturbed The Spirit is coming to me on that I am assured...

The real trouble with the world… is that it is a complete and systematic sham, and he that follows it ends not by living but by pretending he is alive… Ours is certainly a time for solitaries…but our world is different from theirs (The Desert Fathers). Our involvement in it is more complex. Our...

False Self If we take our vulnerable shell to be our true identity, if we think our mask is our true face, we will protect it with fabrications even at the cost of violating our own truth. -Merton- Looking in the mirror I see The hollow image I call me A projection of what they want me to...

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A man dies as he lived The door to heaven or hell Opens to the heart

Behold, I was brought forth in sin. And in sin my mother conceived me. False self - straight jacket – Tape over the mouth – braces on legs –breaking out like Forest Gump – RUN CHRISTIAN RUN! My real self born alive and immediately Became my false self and died But my mask lives on in a...

He came to us in power, born on a pile of hay The invisible became visible and he grew in his own way The king who stooped to serve us, was a carpenter by trade But His angelic army was the greatest ever made He taught what seemed impossible to love your foes and pray And then He taught us how...

Black on black where darkness hides me Shadows weep for love that’s failed My cherished dreams that were before me Have gone to sea they’ve all set sail In pain I cried out for your mercy From deep to deep I called to you Like cooling showers in the summer Your love came down my heart renewed...

​There is no solitude outside of myself Every inch of land and space is owned and controlled Like a colony of spiders whose web betrays any movement Or breath passing through it There are brief moments of relief In nooks and crannies When light passes through the trees And I bless the trees...

I dreamed I saw St. Romero Down in El Salvador Celebrating the Eucharist Hearts yearning for much more He saw his people suffering The rich grind down the poor He spoke out for their freedom Can’t protect him anymore He prayed for God to bless them Chalice raised above his head The shooter...

Lord by your hand, my prayers Filled with seeds of faith and hope Are carried by the winds of your Spirit Each directed by You, Finding their place to nurture, grow and affect Some fall on rocky soil, you nurture them Some are choked by thorns, you clear the way Some fall in rich and...