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Divine Mercy
Through His Church, Christ keeps Divine Mercy flowing all day, every day. Yet the ‘hour of mercy’ – 3:00 – is still a poignant reminder of His ultimate sacrifice, by which that beautiful, bountiful mercy began flowing through His people to the hurting world. I’m often awake at 3 a.m., praying the Divine Mercy chaplet in the space of time God carved out for me through years of attending to the night-needs of children. Without that history of sleep deprivation, I might not now have these intimate times of communion with Our Lord!
The image in this poem is of God reaching toward the calm, receptive waters of my soul to speak the one Word that is at the very root of all being, and thus to move upon those waters – moving me to join in His love for the whole world through Christ, His first and final Word. On the Cross, He changed the whole ‘axis’ upon which the world spins – realigning it as He constantly realigns me, to turn toward His open wounds for the forgiveness, mercy, grace and hope we all need for survival.
Divine Mercy
Two Easter moments in each day –
two hours passionate –
when Mercy’s waves mount high
and, crashing power-full,
race condescending to be spent.
Love fills the space between man and his God –
becalmed, eternal, still –
but at its root is shaken by one word.
Then, through its infinite density,
there moves this ever-spending wave,
for mercy is love, moved.
How lightly came that word
to speak into the origin,
and from that point lift a new axis up
to confound mortal coordinates.
Each day the passion tide is fresh,
His mercy ever new,
And caught up in the sea I move
Lifted to love with the open wound.
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