HeyJaredFrom Head to Heart
Catholic. Poetry, essays, and devotional reflections. MSW student, 22 yo.
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The Only Fulfillment of Desire: An All-Consuming Fire (opens the original)
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Lord, I have felt the thirst of this earth. Seeing all the beauty that You have created, I have failed to see through it—to see through my passion, to my true and deepest need. I have felt this panting after You, this need for You, this ache that I so often numb with anything but You.This thirst is for You, though my heart knows it not; this hunger is for You, though my mind is not yet convinced.The wilderness of this earth leaves me in desperate need, always reaching for something, something ou
Who am I to You? (opens the original)
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“Too late did I love You, O Fairness, so ancient, and yet so new! Too late did I love You!For behold, You were within, and I without, and there did I seek You; I, unlovely, rushed heedlessly among the things of beauty You made. You were with me, but I was not with You. Those things kept me far from You, which, unless they were in You, were not. You called,and cried aloud, and forced open my deafness. You gleamed and shine, and chase away my blindness. You exhaled odours, and I drew in my breath
"I am what I am before God; nothing more, and nothing less." (opens the original)
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At Arm's Length (opens the original)
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“God shows His love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”While we were yet sinners (Romans 5:8).My sin is supposed to be in the past tense, but I live later in Paul’s letter. I long to do good, but I don’t do it. My inmost self, which loves God, watches, paralyzed, as my flesh revels in its attachment to this world. I delight in what I wish to be rid of. “I do not understand my own actions.” Sin dwells in me; evil lives close at hand.I feel You, Lord. I feel You in the
Prayer & Penance for the Mentally & Physically Ill (opens the original)
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