I just returned from Santa Barbara where I received my certificate as a spiritual director. It was an amazing experience. One of our lessons was on using poetry as prayer. Our teacher gave us one line to get us started and then gave us about 10 minutes to write whatever came to mind. Afterward, many people read their poems aloud. It was amazing how everyone's poem was completely unique and truly poetic (even though most of us would not have called ourselves poets).If you'd like to try it just take the title of this blog entry "When I Look into My Heart" and see what flows from within you. It can be very enlightening. I share my poem with you below.
When I look into my heart
I see a deep chasm of longing
I try to fill it with people, ideas, possessions
But it only grows wider and deeper
This chasm cannot be filled with things temporal
It can only be satiated by things eternal
You, my Lord, my God, my King
You alone fill and satisfy the chasm of longing
That is…my heart
