September 2, 2011

My Journey to God

Deepest Center

There is a “deepest center”
That dwells in our soul—
Where God waits for us,
Desiring to unite with us,
What mystics wrote about
And experienced.
What else is prayer
But to discover and rest
In this “deepest center” and
Touch tenderness
Taste relevance
Smell essence
Hear eloquence
See luminance,
And remove all thought, reasoning and intellect,
And solely with our senses
Absorb Presence—
To just be
In this “deepest center.”

By Cathy Lamperski Dearing

(Cathy Lamperski Dearing is a member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. She wrote this poem after reading “The Living Flame of Love,” a poem written by St. John of the Cross.)

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