CARE OF MY SOUL

Hungry is my soul
Neglect and more busy-ness
Have taken their toll

Care for other things
Easy to fit into schedule
Responsibilities

Bills to pay—due date
Conscientious credit score
Soul’s care belate

Oil changed in the car
Tires rotated extra wear
Travel near and far

Traverse the highway
Coming and going with jobs
Joining in the fray

Starving all the while
Forgetting nurture of soul
Satan’s daily guile

Feasting on the Word
Inner being now nutrition
The Lord having heard

GOLD TEETH AND A GOLD HEART

Young man with gold teeth
Flashing big smile with cell phone
Sinister beneath

Strange sight to behold
Vigor of youth newly defined
With mouth full of gold

I was then unsure
How to interpret this scene
Devious allure

Thoughts inside of me
Focused on external signs
That we are worthy

Defined by a thing
No one else claims to possess
Uniqueness it brings

How much I am like
This young man I saw that day
My conscience to strike

Though teeth of gold not
I attempt flash my own smile
To show what I’ve got

Shallow and judging
I find my empty heart to be
Spirit keeps nudging

Let me now behold
People through the eyes of Jesus
Give me Heart of gold

PANIS ANGELICUS

“O bread of angels”
Feed my weary, hungry soul
God’s manna unseen

Trembling faith discovers
Eternal source of life’s food
Dependence uncovers

Present sacrament
Moment encased in celestial
The second advent

God’s mighty purpose
Unfolding miraculously
Like a delicate rose

God’s self to reveal
Transforming ordinary place
To mystical feel

Like my good Shepherd
Provide green grass and water
Reality blurred

Oneness to commune
Devotion stirs my heart strings
Panis angelicus

The Centurion's Faith

GospelMt 8:5-11When Jesus entered Capernaum,a centurion approached him and appealed to him, saying,“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully.” He said to him, “I will come and cure him.” The centurion said in reply,“Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof;only say the word and my servant will be healed.For I too am a man subject to authority,with soldiers subject to me.And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes;and to another, ‘Come here,’ and he comes;and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him,“Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. I say to you, many will come from the east and the west,and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacobat the banquet in the Kingdom of heaven.”


Worthy I am not
Even though sickness invades
Entreat You alot

Like centurion’s dare
Family crisis drives me
To my Lord in prayer

Suffer full of dread
My aching heart filled with pain
Turn to Him instead

Faith like grain of sand
If people listen to me
He will hold my hand

Jesus, have you found
That kind of full faith in me?
Kingdom banquet bound!