Lavished with the Divine

You were within, but I was without

You were with me, but I was not with you

So you called

You shouted

You broke through my deafness

You flared, blazed and banished my blindness

You lavished your fragrance, and I gasped

                                                                St. Augustine, Confessions

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my eyes wander to the broken concrete

the abandoned building

the broken down care

my body focuses on pain

and stiffness

and my heart is made heavy

as I read of yet another child

gone

killed by a gun

my values are assaulted by legislators

who feed the fat cows of wall street

but starve children

and abandon the old

I am assailed from without

by the darkness

by the ugliness of it all

within is the deep pool of Sacred love

is God

present as Spirit

roaring like wine, burning like fire

when I reach deep and touch the Sacred

nothing is changed, everything is changed

and I gasp

lavished by love