11/15/15 Through 11/21/15

11/15/15 Through 11/21/15

Sunday

Can I last until the end,

Will truth and right I still defend?

Enticing beauty can I see,

With eyes of love and purity?

Will I look beyond the now

To see a life of love somehow,

Will bring about the holy state

That all the saints so long await?

Monday

Lord I ask for eyes to see

The poor and needy close to me

That they would see, in me, a light 

To make their day a bit more bright.

Tuesday

The joy of others stirred in me

A simple curiosity

What had they found that I had not?

This part of faith I never got.

The scripture was a foreign land

Not visited by modern man

But I found within that book,

A man of love with baited hook.

He set it deep within my soul,

Through love He made my quiver full.

A mate to help me on the way

To find the path to brighter days

A grateful heart looks back to find

Religion of a different kind

Remembering forevermore

The climbing of that sycamore.

Then coming down to sup with Him

To chase the dark and light the dim

I found the joy that I had sought.

Now others seek what I have got.

Wednesday

The ones who torture and defile

Refuse to love or reconcile

No demand that's ever met

Will give them what they want to get.

For evil, peace cannot be found.

Their enemies are all around.

Conversion is the only way

To fight the terror of this day.

For only when we forfeit pride

Can different ones live side by side.

When stinginess and egos cease

Is only when we live in peace.

Thursday

When missed the opportunity,

Is gone with it, felicity.

If we but knew the joy we lost

Would it be worth so great a cost?

Friday

Drive away each evil thought

And cleanse this soul which You have bought.

Take my anger, lust, and greed

And make me pure in word and deed.

Saturday

Mary's gift at Presentation

Brought so great a consolation

That forever she may be

United with the Trinity.