Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The other day this poem was used at the Annual General Meeting of the Halifax Community Chaplaincy Society -a board that provides a chaplain who works with ex-offenders and their families.  The chaplain's closing prayer were these:

Fall in Love Prayer -Fr.Pedro Arrupe

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is,
than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination,
will affect everything.
It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekend,
what you read, who you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in love,
stay in love,
and it will decide everything.

A touching that prayer that has and continues to digest for those who heard it that day.

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