spirit – MaddogPoetry

Affect

Silence reforms quiet echoes with resonance Mirrors reflect image and likeness with candidness Listening replies hear what God hears with reverence Prisms refract colors revealed with truthfulness Beauty restores real communion with elegance

Effect

Reason impounds Surpass will With certainty Practices impact Both-and well with civility Heart implies contented with adversity Spirits improve Calm submits with gentility Truth implores Here and now with eternity

More More Meek and Humble

Jesus is a humble spirit Starting with no cradle. “The poorest waif, the beggar’s child, can at least claim a crib, but Jesus shared the straw of the hillside beast.” [1] He had a submissive attitude, He turned the other cheek, He allowed trespassing, He demanded service. He suggested we follow his lead “… learnContinue reading “More More Meek and Humble”

Hopes

(based on Anima Christi by Ignatius Loyola) Breath of the Spirit, inspire me Body and Blood of Christ, nurture me Bounty of the Creator, sustain me Zealous Christ, strengthen me Sacrificed Christ, save me Risen Christ, restore me Your fiat moves me Your acceptance assures me Your perseverance encourages me Your wounds preserve me. HelpContinue reading “Hopes”

Apostolic Spirit

Apostolic is a practice of love and zeal regardless of fatigue and inconvenience. Spirit is a doer of good and kindness with detachment, openness and purity of intention. “Love your enemies, and do good to them, without expecting a return, for you are children of God… [1] What foils it? Anxiousness distracts the mind. WorldlinessContinue reading “Apostolic Spirit”

Use Me

(Based on the Prayer of St Francis of Assisi) O God, Make me an instrument of the Spirit; where there is bias, openness; where there is intransigence, reconciliation; where there is hesitancy, zeal; where there is judgment, compassion; where there is fear, peace; where there is selfishness, love. O God, Help me to confront prejudiceContinue reading “Use Me”

The Holy Spirit

“The Holy Spirit is to our souls as the sun is to heaven – giving light, giving warmth, filling with brightness and joy.”[1] Sunshine provides possibility and enables nature to produce beauty of shape, noise, and fragrance. Spirit enlightens and inflames the soul to make harmony with reverence, zeal, and kindness. “The tender mercyContinue reading “The Holy Spirit”

Baptism

John calls, Change our ways and make straight the Way. Jesus wants to join the narrow Way… He answers the call. He asks the brazen John to baptize him – a rite of passage – to begin his ministry But John is humbly hesitant – the pain of change… the path would not simply straighten.Continue reading “Baptism”