March 23, 2012

Reflection on the Spirit of the Sacred Heart March 23, 2012

There is within each of us   A quiet clear pool of living water  Fed by the one deep Source And inseparable from it, But so often hidden By a tangle of activity That we may not know Of its existence. We can spend the proverbial forty years Wandering in strange deserts, Sinking unrewarding wells And moving on, driven by our thirst, But when we stop still long enough To look inside ourselves, really look Beyond our ideas about water And what and where it should be, We discover it was with us all the time, That quiet clear pool which is ageless, The meaning of our existence. And the answer to all wanderings. And as we drink, We know what Jesus meant when he said We'd never be thirsty again. "Aotearoa Psalms" by Joy Crowley Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Committee Province of Australia - New Zealand      (http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/spirituality/reflections/97-0205/354-lenten-reflection-week-three.html)

For Reflection...    "As lived by most people today modernity is often pretty dismal. Western civilization is increasingly a desert of meaning and a daily lived crisis of surviving in human dignity....It is a world without prayer.  And yet the very barrenness and desperation of that world seems to ignite a lone spark of spirituality..."  "Prayer in the West Today" Laurence Freeman OSB Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Committee Province of Australia - New Zealand   (http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/spirituality/reflections/97-0205/354-lenten-reflection-week-three.html)                     Photograph of St. Begge Fountain, Andenne, Belgium   http://www.rscjinternational.org/en/alerts-notshown-48/2868-june-10th-2010.html