One resource I am perusing this year during Lent is a book titled Seven Sacred Pauses: living mindfully through the hours of the day by Macrina Wiederkehr. She encourages people to find ways to observe the Divine Hours in the midst of the daily work day, in the middle of our life's demanding activities.
It is a thought provoking book. I recommend it if you are ready for such a thing. Her meditations and collections of sayings have stirred something inside, and I write for the next few days a short poem of reflection for each hour of the Divine Hours. [caveat: I am told my poetry tends to be somewhat blah, so don't feel as if you need to read these. It is just my contemplation of this particular season].
Sacred Vigil
I awake in the deep silence of night and lean into the darkness
Yearning for a touch from the One Who does not sleep.
Are you there?
Straining to see, hoping to hear some small sign,
I keep watch with the angels, seeking eternity.
Mystery washes over me, shivering my very being.
I cry, my heart moaning the unspeakable.
I feel agony - mine, His, ours, all the suffering of the world.
I drown gagging and spewing, frantic, into the depths of His heart,
Dreaming His thoughts, far beyond human reason,
On beyond the wildest of imaginations.
I wait, floating there.
Joy will come.
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