Profound-ness

"O eternal Trinity, You are a deep sea in which the more I seek the more I find,
and the more I find, the more I seek to know You.

You fill us insatiably, because the soul, before the abyss which You are,
is always famished; and hungering for You, O eternal Trinity,
it desires to behold truth in Your light.

As the thirsty heart pants after the fount of living water,
so does my soul long to leave this gloomy body and see You as You are, in truth.

“O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean!
What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

You are an ever-burning Fire; You consume and are not consumed.
By Your fire, You consume every trace of self-love in the soul.
You are a Fire which drives away all coldness and illumines minds with its light, and with this light You have made known Your truth.

Truly this light is a sea which feeds the soul until it is all immersed in You,
O peaceful Sea, eternal Trinity!

The water of this sea is never turbid; it never causes fear, but gives knowledge of the truth.
This water is transparent and discloses hidden things; and a living faith gives such abundance of light that the soul almost attains to certitude in what it believes.

“You are the supreme and infinite Good, good above all good; good which is joyful, incomprehensible, inestimable; beauty exceeding all other beauty; wisdom surpassing all wisdom, because You are Wisdom itself.

Food of angels, giving Yourself with fire of love to men!
You are the garment which covers our nakedness;
You feed us, hungry as we are, with Your sweetness,
because You are all sweetness, with no bitterness.

Clothe me, O eternal Trinity, clothe me with Yourself,
so that I may pass this mortal life in true obedience
and in the light of the most holy faith with which You have inebriated my soul."

- St. Catherine of Siena

ready for summer

Hey little dark-haired darling
Pretty as a Christmas tree
You make my world light up
All the other guys can see
You're as pretty as a snow flake, baby
Falling from the sky
And each one is different, darling
Maybe that's why...

You're such a mystery to me
I can't explain
Each time I catch you
You melt away
And just like the holidays, you come and go away
You leave me thinking that you never came
And you disappear just like a dream
You always leave me longing....

{Dark-Haired Darling}
Josh Bales

Feelings....

I may no longer
depend on pleasant impulses
to bring me before the Lord.


I must rather respond
to principles I know to be right,
whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

~Jim Elliot

Spinnin' your shoes...

"You hold your head up to the sky

You say what kind of blue are you? Are you?

Then you ride your pony round and round

It’s diggin’ a hole, right through, right through

You stumble down a yellow brick road,

Spinning your shoes in the air, the air.

Then you, hold your breath, and count to nine,

Hoping that soon somebody will find you, find you........"

~Pony (It's OK) by Erin McCarley

Lucky Star

You are my lucky star
I saw you from afar
Two lovely eyes at me
They where gleaming
Beaming
I was starstruck

You're all my lucky charm
I'm lucky in your arms
You've opened Heaven's portal
Here on earth for this poor mortal
You are my lucky star...

~From 'Singing in the Rain'

The love of God is greater far.....

"The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell........

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky. "

~"The Love of God" by Frederick M. Lehman