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Justice Love

September 08, 2024
By Lael Niblick, CSA

I feel this anger and I am afraid
Am I the one unjust in my perceptions
Unwilling to see the reality?
Or is my anger a cry for justice
Within the reality of all I love?
I look to go deeper yet hesitate
Because it is painful.
I long for the simple beauty,
Simpler truth, but it is not simple
Yet perhaps it is.
It is so connected and I hesitate.
I fear to speak justice
because it is so fragilly entwined
In the hearts of those I love.
I fear to cry out because
I love and because I love 
I have no choice but to cry out.
But then I must absorb the pain.
How does one absorb the pain of justice love?
For who am I to define what is just?
I look to Christ but who is to say I see?
I am among the needy even as I stand
Both sinner and lover.
Ah, the pain is the love
And the desire for something greater,
Something deeper.
And the pain is the sense of loss.
Or the fear that something precious
Might be lost or never found.

Somewhere in the centering of it all is life
But life is not mine to contain.
Ah yes, life untamed, beautiful life.
I am but a part of the connecting
Where Christ is the source-center.
It is in this Christ reality that all is made whole
All is healed, all is transformed.
And who is to heart?
Yes, Christ and yes in Christ, we.
Love-justice is we in Christ
The pain I feel is not mine alone
But ours in Him.
And so the joy and love and all this is Life..


 

Munchkins

August 25, 2024
By Lael Niblick, CSA

Munchkins—they are the little ones
The ones shushed and hushed
But never quieted—not really.
They are the children whose eyes 
Delight in wonders
Whose hearts are open to love
The children who play with abandon
Begging simply to be recognized
Loved
It is so easy to love the children
And yet so often no one 
Wants to be bothered by their antics
Their pleading
Their cries
Go away—go play
Leave me aloud
Let the children come to me
For thus is the Kingdom of God.
 

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What is All This?

August 11, 2024
By Lael Niblick, CSA

What is this fear tearing at my center
Seeking only light and release?
What is this unknown longing
Reaching deep within, dreaming of ecstasy?
What is this depth of knowing the unknown
And craving only to understand?
What is this Love within me, around me
So my own love or one love?
Have you given us Your love to love with
And we only gradually come to know
To give, to be given.
Ah, Lord, 
What is all this?
 

Friendship Thank-You

July 28, 2024
By Lael Niblick, CSA

I do not understand Lord
This gift you’ve given me
The sacredness of friendship
The opening to be.

I only come to thank-you
I only come to pray
Take this friend you’ve given
And bless him Lord each day

If the world grows cold around me
And the nights so lonely feel
Remind me I am loved Lord
Remind me this is real

And bless with gentle presence
And do not let us fear
And Lord help us remember
In your presence you are near. 

Possibility

July 14, 2024
By Peg Spindler, CSA

We live with possibilities in our veins,
seeing thresholds where some see walls.
Life closes enough doors as we make our way.
Reasoned rationale is not always right.
Keep the doors ajar.
Keep the windows cracked open
even when it rains
because we live with, we need, possibilities in our veins.
Mary Mollison, CSA asked: “What if…?”
Bobbie Kennedy wondered: “Why not?”
Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed: “I have a dream…”
We, too, live with possibilities in our veins,
rousing risk amidst reality
in hope …
 

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