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Oratio: When You Are Pleased
Heavenly FatherI hear your whispersthe word upon my heartI see the winkof your divine eyeI feel you smiling upon mewhen you are pleasedand you want nothing lessthan for me to sharein your eternal joywhy I strayremains a mysteryand so I pray ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Lectio: When Our Defenses Fall
“This is not to say that God desires for us to suffer. Rather, when our defenses fall, our ultimate connection is revealed. Thus, vulnerability is another way in which we can experience our desire for God.” ~Fr. James Martin, SJ
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Oratio: I Am Enough
Releaseyour possessionswhispers the Lordcome to metrust in mefollow meabide in melet go of allthat you hold dearfor I am enough ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Lectio: Gentle Hearts
“Humility makes our hearts gentle towards the perfect and the imperfect; towards those from reverence, towards those from compassion.” ~Frances De Sales
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Oratio: To Hold Or Let Go
Entering a new seasonof the spiritstepping outin faithas if I had a choiceI know I have a choiceand yet I have no choicelove and lightgrace and mercyHe guides and protect mebut not from the fearthat is mineto hold or let go ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Oratio: The Eternal Belonging
Oh how I fearthe silencebeing left outforgottenforsakenfrom the danceof the worldalone and unlovedyet the silenceis an invitationit draws me deeperinto relationshipinto divine unioninto the fulland loving embraceit invites meinto the dance of lovethe spirit dancethe eternal belonging ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Lectio: Humble And Loving Receptivity
“It is only through the mood of humble and loving receptivity in which the artist perceives beauty, that the human spirit can apprehend a reality which is greater than itself. The many declarations about noughting, poverty, and ‘holy nothingness’ refer to this. The meek and poor of spirit really are the inheritors of Eternity.”…
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Oratio: Of Divine Love
The Fatherempties Himself outcompletelyinto the Sonthe Sonempties Himself outcompletelyinto methat I maythrough the Holy Spiritmay empty myself outcompletelyinto this relationshipthe eternal danceof divine love ~Robert Van Valkenburgh
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Lectio: Interior Knowledge
“Ask for interior knowledge of Our Lord, who became human for me, that I may love him more intensely and follow him closely.” ~Ignatius of Loyola