Here is a wonderful little poem that I composed October of 2006. I had been sitting around in my dorm room, playing a game online with a close friend. The urge had come over me to start writing. This is what became of that. At the time, I felt it had nothing to do with me. All it was, was a beautiful piece of work
There is a glow on her face
One like never seen before
Shinning shimmering smile
Grows ever more beautiful
This young woman bows
Saying a soft prayer as she goes
A faith that was once lost
Grows every more beautiful
Looking around at a world
Where once she saw only bad
The view from God given to her
Grows ever more beautiful
Once brushing away from the needy
Now she gently kneels before them
Seeing in them the strength that
Grows ever more beautiful
Pain she once felt deep inside
Once hidden and hurt she felt
She now is told that she
Grows ever more beautiful
In Gods eyes
9:08pm
10-20-06
Please see this post to read the rest of my reflection on this poem on the time I posted it 4 years after its writing (poem in 2006, post in 2010). Reading it now, I think I am seeing it a little different than my reflection in the previous post. I have been doing a great deal of volunteering and have become (and am becoming still) close friends with some (and hopefully more) of the staff there. Life has tossed me many challenges and Satan has been fighting really hard for me. He knows right where to strike at me the hardest, where I am apt to fail. I have fallen in recent days, but these blessed people have helped me fill my life with prayer and God’s love. It has always been in my life, but it feels like it is activating itself more. I have always valued my faith, and being Catholic able to receive Jesus in the Eucharist, but this community is bringing something else out in me. So something I wrote that at the time felt like it had absolutely no connection to me, comes around again and perhaps speaks to the relationships that have grown in the past months and my longing for the Holy City of God.
Grace-Filled Hope 