Sometimes we all need a little encouragement
and who better to encourage us than God.
I found this poem years ago written by Father Michel Quoist and it has
become one of my favorite poems since… I
read it a few times a year to remind myself that God has it all planned and to
renew my trust in Him. Father Michel
wrote this particular poem as part of his book, Prayers. If you love words and language as much as I
do then you will truly enjoy his book.
It has great spiritual poems that motivate, inspire and give hope. They are profound in meaning and full of the
presence of God (yet simple to understand) enjoy...
Listen, son,
Stop,
and make, silently, a long pilgrimage to the
bottom of your heart.
Walk by the side of your love so new, as one
follows a brook to find
its source, and, at the very end, deep within
you, in the infinite
mystery of your troubled soul, you will meet Me.
For I call myself Love, son,
And from the beginning I have been nothing but
Love,
And Love is in you.
It is I who made you to love,
To love eternally;
And your love will pass through another self of
yours
it is she that you seek;
Set your mind at rest; she is on your way,
on the way since the beginning,
the way of my love.
You must wait for her coming.
She is approaching.
You are approaching.
You will recognize each other,
For I’ve made her body for you, I’ve made yours
for her.
I’ve made your heart for her, I’ve made hers
for you.
And you seek each other, in the night,
In ‘my night,’ which will become Light if you
trust Me.
Keep yourself for her, son,
As she is keeping herself for you.
I shall keep you for one another,
And, since you hunger for love,
I’ve put on your way all your brothers to
love.
Believe me, it’s a long apprenticeship,
learning to love,
And there are not several kinds of love:
Loving is always leaving oneself to go towards
others. . .
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." James 1:17
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