Lord God of this great night: do You see the woods?
Do you hear the rumor of their loneliness?
Do you behold their secrecy?
Do you remember their solitudes?
Do you see that my soul is beginning to melt like wax within me?
                                                 
-Thomas Merton

In these bodies we will live,
In these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love
You invest your life
Awake my soul.....
Awake my soul.....
Awake my soul.....
For you were made to meet your Maker.

-Mumford & Sons, Awake My Soul

My Heart's Love
Bursts with hay and flowers.
I am a lake of blue air
In which my own appointed place
Field and valley
Stand reflected.

-Thomas Merton

Yours we must want to feel its pull.
A big leap and then we float closer and closer,
slowly swirling, swimming in 
florescent soft pools of safeness.
A stated state, ours to take.
The other we seem to want without wanting.
Not even a step, it pulls without thought,
an easy pull to take.
When did we start flying so fast?
Along (where are you?), running (or lying?)
down a cold hard glide path, muffled, no
screeches of pain. Pain. Pain.
A state realized unstated.
Claiming the first just takes a 
claim. Freedom un-free, ours to take.
So why do we want without wanting?
Does it matter or not?
Matter or not, give us your orbit,
Please lift our leap, please lift us to
surf its foamy pink swells.
Turn our stare to its obvious pull
A stated state, ours to take.

-MKW

Make ready for the Face
that speaks like lightning,
uttering the new name of your exultation
Deep in the vitals of your soul.
Make ready for the Christ, whose 
smile, like lightning,
sets free the song of everlasting glory
That now sleeps in your paper flesh,
like dynamite.

-Thomas Merton

All fall down…
All the information
All the big ideas
All the radio waves
On electronic seas
How to navigate
How to simply be
Don’t know when to wait
Explain simplicity
In whom shall I trust?
How might I be still?
Teach me to surrender
Not my will, Thy will…


-U2, Falling at Your Feet