Weekly Inspiration (4/6/23)

Quote of the Week

“In the human body of the crucified Son, God has definitively removed the veil and shown the world what God’s reign actually looks like. A giving away of self that answers the violence and self-centeredness of the world with forgiveness. A power made perfect in weakness, suffering the infliction of evil to disarm and swallow it up in the ever-greater divine love.”

-Br. Sean Glenn 
Society of Saint John the Evangelist 

Poem of the Week

When you feel lonely,  
longing to be seen,  
to be heard, to be touched,  
it’s loneliness for God.  

 The emptiness that cries out in you is holy,  
it is the loneliness of God, 
God's longing  
to be heard, to be seen, to be known, 
God's emptiness for you.  

 This is the Holy Trinity:  
the bowl, the fruit in the bowl,  
and the emptiness that makes room for the fruit. 

 Sit with that longing. 
Embrace that loneliness. 
In that holy ache  
is hidden 
your deepest joy. 

- by Steve Garnaas-Holmes