Catholic Meditations

Dear Lord,
I think
of all those people
who long to do good,
who see light
but don't understand it,
who look at the counterfeit,
and not knowing how to choose,
pick the pretty false
over the solid true,
and think it is well.

I do not know
all the answers, Lord,
but would,
if you choose,
to help show
those who look
the true from the false
the tinfoil from the gold,
the solid from the insubstantial.

Let me point someone
to your beacon on the hill,
where heaven and earth meet
at the cross at Golgotha,
where you wait
to give life
to those who will listen.

I do not know
all the answers, Lord,
but your hands
know what to do.

Amen.

Susan E. Stone, 2004

Labels: Discipleship