Where do we see God? How do we see God? In which God do we trust?

Would any seek take root if it had not believed

His promise, when God said,

“Dears I will rain.  I will help you.  I will turn into

warmth and effulgence

I will be the Mother I am

and let you draw from

My body

And rise, and

rise”

                                St. Thomas Aquinas

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How we shape our faith

our belief

How we shape our lives

our attitudes

our feelings

our perceptions

and yes our actions

depends so greatly

upon how we view the Sacred

it depends on whether we see God in

the beauty of nature

and the cycles of death and renewal

or in the brutal ravages of nature

and in the pinched and angry faces

of those who

with passion

tell us we must turn, or burn

today O Sacred One

I choose to find you in the gentle mew of my cat

In the soft nudge of a mare’s nose

In the startling whiteness of new snow

in the love

of compassionate people

and so I will live

and hope

and

rise

thank you

for being

love