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Spirituality
And
"All That
Jazz

by Peter Menkin

For religious reading, prayer and living a spiritual life Before entering a long comment and analysis on the value of living the spiritual life, and keep a copy of this pocket-sized book The Rule of St. Benedict, I want to write a brief introduction to what is the basis of my theme to use the book:
prayer. After discuss the job as I see it as a contribution to the very life of life in the world and
in the light of God's presence.

An invitation to prayer contemplative
And the many mansions of Faith
I'll tell you, and tell those I know, some of my thoughts about contemplative prayer, and prayer in general. I want to make a statement to encourage people to think of God, and to consider entering the ministry because it
a friend to others. I The new revised standard
The version of the Bible (Oxford), and the New Jerusalem Bible
(Doubleday) when composing some of these thoughts.
I listened to the Dean of the Cathedral Grace, Alan Jones,
read the full script of "The cloud of
Fault. "He has a very remarkable and instructive
reading style. And a voice that is easy to hear. The audio tape is available in the Cathedral of the gift shop of grace,
1055 Taylor Street, San Francisco, California. There is
two tapes in the set. Dean's voice is a comfort to its listeners, so you may listen to the tape good
background sound tuning.

Another thing to know about Me: I am an oblate of New
Camaldoli, and have a hermitage in Big Sur, California, which is worth visiting. It is south of Lucia on Highway 1.
They are monks Benedictines, and forward
Second Vatican Council. Here is a book of recommended reading: "Love
on the Mountain "by Robert Hale. This is the chronic
Diary of a monk Camaldolese and is available through
The Hermitage Bookshop, Immaculate Heart Hermitage
Big Sur, California, 93,920. Amazon.com also

There are some other interesting books from the publisher, including one that says that monasteries and retreat houses are in the United States. You may want to get the book to visit some of these lovely places, peaceful and sacred. Travelers will find particularly interesting.

The editorial: reference books, PO Box 794, Trabuco Canyon, CA 92,678. Writing for a flyer for your book list, and enclosing a stamped envelope for the role of a page.

Here the text about God and myself and others and prayer:
The mystery of God's presence, like the life of Christ is
available to us through prayer. San Benito wrote a rule about prayer. The rule says: "At the moment, therefore, we must sing the praises of our Creator for his judgments, just …
"We this in the office daily morning and evening.

"The Rule of St. Benedict" is a small book that illustrates some of the things we know about of God. Above all it is to stay
in the Spirit of the Almighty, and learning about the justice that comes from a relationship with the Triune God. Most the thoughts of God and Christ and the Holy Spirit from St. Benedict, and the rule that illuminates what is himself. You are encouraged to buy the book at some point, and read. Youth and
in its 30 years and older, who are interested in living a life of prayer, or to live with God in their lives, and especially
which have wondered how it feels to be called by Christ, is the introduction rule for a better life.

You will join many others across decades have also shared an interest in knowing what God calls them to do in their lives. Young people who feel that life in the service discover that his Church through prayer to be able to discern what the Spirit saith unto them.

Surprisingly, many people who have experienced and know God agreed that regular prayer life is useful in the stabilization of life with others. We share God through Christ, and in this book appointments the Bible is an introduction to Christ's message of the Trinity that dwells in us.
For regular prayer, an introduction to the contemplation of fair trial of creation itself in making
the world, man, and our life is evident. Within this
Christ is indwelling you. Discover
contemplation Triune God, through Christ, is that the
to be with others in worship along with the gift of
memory. In the daily practice of prayer can enjoy the memory of the community in Christ.

"" Nobody has ever seen God. Is God the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has known. "
(Meister Eckhart, quoted in his writings.) "John 1:18

This is the food of life that is available in prayer, and Through the assistance of church where the sacraments are
offered. This comes to know Christ with the worship that is a joy is a discipline developed. It is through Food of the will that we are able to do what Christ asks is that
it, because it is "the will of him who sent me" we are
seek through the care we give to Christ. The
Kingdom of God come to us everyday ministry a few minutes of daily prayer and the conclusion
of this work may take many months to begin to attend
the harvest. You will be able to say when you look around and see that the days are ripe for the crop for
This is what we pay attention to bring Christ in the spirit on a daily basis. This common experience of ecstasy
in the One God and Trino through this reception is a maturation
the spirit. We are told in John 4 that "the reaper
already receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal
life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. "
How can we enter the gates of the mansions, and
worlds that are available to us in the Spirit, and
service to others? How can we, as lay support
and live our life in the Church as Christians, to enter
daily collector welcoming spirit is the offering? We can and do practice this with the grace of God. This grace is something that is a entry point to the
Father, Son and Holy Spirit, a narrow road to heaven
that's a start for the willing participant in prayer.
When considering Christ as the spiritual community of our lives, we join others in a job, and as John says
directly with us "… you have entered their work."

During the rest of Christ, because he is an enlightened man,
inspired and infused with the blessing of God as God in man, yet He is in work, bringing us into his fold. When
who visited the Samaritan woman and told him
the living water he brought, the result was that other
Samaritans began to reach him to ask him to stay
with them. This willingness to faith, a hope in things unseen, and a belief that going forward in the Spirit, is a door for us to begin to recognize that in —
reality of the housing of a gift of God is available to us through
poetic recognition our own silence. We find
the still point of our experience in the world and within ourselves through a reading of the Scriptures, and practice of prayer in the morning and evening.

Prayer gives us the comfort of knowing that the Savior of the world is at our disposal during an interrogation, when
God can speak freely with an immediacy that allows even the most genuine freely given parts of ourselves.
This gives more to the Savior our innermost sanctuaries,
and thoughts and desires is part of what
prayer life concerned. This is the memory, the memory
of things, people and events that have happened. We
enter rooms of many, many places, many doors
of our day in prayer. We remind our friends, their voices, their activities the day or last week or last
year in our prayers. Through this memory as he lived
and intention of remembrance is a gift of grace
allows us to enter the Stillpoint. Through Christ
into the knowledge of God the Father, and the
Spirit Holy enlightens us with a constant expression
the novelty of the words that are in the page
the sentence can be read, or the words of the
prayer, one can say.

Ignorance of this practice is the essence of the experience. Call this a spiritual exercise, a waiver of Christ in worship the type of love that is desire
the sweetness of the Lord. Surrender of ourselves
thus we are partakers of living water which is
a thirst of love very late and close to revealing that we are children of God. Christ is willing to be with us
at this time of intimacy and privacy, allowing us to be a
gatherers of the fruit for eternal life. To enjoy this meal
a party with others in the distribution of their lives, and the
laughter or grief that is, with other in the community is
part of the life of prayer. We implement this type of prayer
with others, and remember. Do this with others and
when us Just remember that we ourselves
always in the presence of Christ.

The greatness of a life of prayer comes to us as we expand
to an ascent with the Lord so that we can know that he is the Savior of the world. This is the act of speed to our heavenly home, a time to run the race of life and soon. Although others have gone before us, and we join them, and they have worked, and into his work
, As Christ says in John, being with them is part of the gift
God offers us in Christ's redemption, his son.

Matthew 11:27
"Everything has been given by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal. "

Are the Lord's disciples in Capernaum, where he sought to him (after of the loaves and fishes were distributed to the crowd that had gathered to see it). In prayer, eating the bread of life from week to week, celebrating and preparing each day for the meeting is the memorial and sacrifice of Sunday. In our celebration of prayer, practiced in any mood, we can be, or the condition of our lives, we follow with interest how to get to the Father in the Son. "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and
Whoever believes in me shall never thirst. "(John 6:35).
Many times during prayer other thoughts come to mind. These can be intuitions and considerations, concerns and memories of the day or the people in our daily lives. This is the stuff of life that is the renewal of prayer. Search this revelation and rise with it. Join this all that is through the Son to the Father. In one mode of contemplation, be aware of the joy that is available and will you through it, remember that Christ gives himself in an offer with which we entered. "… Whoever comes to me I will never drive away …" (John 6:38).

The perceived need to take in the bread of life which is a support for daily living, and a renewal of the healing submitting oneself to the Lord in oneself is the
hope everything is welcome. In our state, ignorant of the faith in our will, through travail, or joy, or quiet time and rest, we continue to seek and find
a place of rest in Christ every day.

The will of Him who sent Christ is to be losing any us. Rest assured that by keeping in mind
availability and psyche love with the desire to be loved, the groom, we can enter another room
or elsewhere in the many mansions that make up a mountain to climb. In this charism of stillness, and in this
welfare of the Spirit, focuses on and open to the
receive the Lord. How powerful is the experience of prayer is private knowledge that is not spoken in the
word that comes from the wind of the Spirit Ghost as a
presence, however, is both a testament to the
sonorous pleasure is the living word in Scripture.

The Father is revealed in the flesh and the presence in the mind of Christ through the believers and those who
Christ would reveal himself. Which this can be is a mystery. Introduction in this mystery, we can enjoy the daily reading of scripture, or the sheer pleasure of hearing the sound of another reading aloud a passage or selection of the books of the Bible. In the church, or friends in the fellowship, the use of scripture or the distribution of
a friendship in Christ is a spiritual experience to know the God of love that comes through and our faith in Christ. For this act of the community, either alone or
with others, participate in the mystery of an ascent in an unknown world that is sent from heaven and endowed
as a boon for the name recognition of the
Trinity dwells in us.

In this worship, or for recognition of light
that is the way to join in the climb toward the sky, we can recognize that this bread from heaven. At this time, and in the next century is
can be a leaven for the Spirit of Christ in our actions and good deeds for others. We may be leaving to take the goodness of the spirit of the Father and
the presence of the Trinity in the world through this
daily exercise of the promise that the Lord offers us.

He is attracted to the Father who sent Christ, and the last day he is raised. At that time and this, as one tries to enter more deeply into spiritual matters, you may have heard and learned to come Christ. In our gratitude for this historic act of the human dimension given by God in the redemption of the world, through a mystery of creation from the moment in the world began, we become Christ. This is the way of eternal life.
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. He who eats this bread will live forever, and bread
I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. "(John 6:51).

Speak good words to others, and when it comes to silence, be careful and know that there is estimated by
silence. To be awake, to remember that there are things and words spoken. Enter this reverence with
others, and practice a heart that listens, a listening ear, and
receptive presence. In this receiving from others, and in
receiving the spirit, we are receiving Christ.

In The Rule of St. Benedict, the writer calls on
the wisdom of saints and their gifts in Christ to the
"Assisting them with the ear of your heart. This is the advice of a father who loves you welcome, and faithfully
implementation. "(Prologue, The Rule of St. Benedict).

Sure to ask another, especially one that is a superior,
for a blessing. This acknowledgment and request for
for the actions or words of a blessing is a form of
keeping the Ten Commandments. "Thou shalt not
false witness against your neighbor. "(The Book of
Common Prayer). The practice of virtue is a good
reward, and commissioning of the Lord as a
lay, lay minister, pastor, a priest, or the
life monastic is a start.

Seek holiness. Find the good. Seek Christ. Being present
the living God who is present at all times, and
remember we live in the eyes of the Lord in
gift of the Trinity. Every day is a day that the Lord has
Indeed, we are glad in it.

Rv. 2:17
"He who has ears hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give the hidden manna, and I will give a pebble white and the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except him who receives it. "

What is the word we have received through prayer, or the practice of life, walking, playing sports, doing our work, talking to friends and family in the knowledge that we do in the light and sight God? It is a spirit. How do we discern the Spirit of the Lord who gave
us as the Christ in us? It's a sense of ourselves
beauty and the gift of the Lord. This tells us comfort that we are a child of God and wanted to go to the Kingdom of God, a sense of our being and welfare. It's there. Discerning the gift of the Spirit. Live in the knowledge that Christ is good and He loves us as
who gives gifts to us so we can get our name and the white stone in which he makes us his, as
start in the life of a Christian.

This is an important dimension to the living soul who speaks and tries to fire a furnace that
the Holy Spirit. The Spirit speaks to the churches, and hear the Spirit when we gather for prayer. Those who feel a call for the priesthood, or a life in service or volunteer work as a Christian community that will do for another, the gains of the hidden manna ktnowledge coming through of the Eucharist, and the living word of scripture. These are written in the wind, and how the wind blows, we know of God's ways are not our ways.

In this ignorance leads to the proximity in the search for a place to stand or take a rock or sit on what we enjoy and fear to see the majesty of God alive wrap. These eyes of our people who are in the Spirit, the narrator of a truth that is a comfort, even to the end, is a realization that we are in a universe which is good, and a world that God created for
we will be with him. We await his coming in glory.

The Spirit is working in the world and in the evennow Church. "The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Trinity …" who spoke through the prophets and the creation of the world was revealed to us that we may be led into the truth that allows us to obtain the hidden manna, which is a good food. As we grow in the likeness of Christ, we recognize that in our confession of Jesus Christ as Lord, we are led to the harmony of the Trinity that dwells in us.

This is a harmony of love, a vocation and a delivery love is so real and closer to being a passion of shared religious experience over many generations and centuries by people known and not known, people remember, and people who are not remembered.

Prayer helps us to be placed in the status of righteous justice of God's gifts to us. In our reading daily or weekly of Scripture is important to recognize the resonance of truth that brings us the word, that addresses us in thoughts, whispers, desires,
and all the things that make for good in us or our thoughts. Something good will come of our agreement with the Scriptures and in our attempt to be willing to be with others in the community so that the word can be studied and made alive in us. The Trinity is one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This wonderful our God is a movement of life and the eternal strength of the time the world began, created by God in Christ to the world's creation. Every day we are living in a revelation through the liturgy of our time in prayer and most of our time in the Church. (The Easter liturgy and the Apocalypse by Massey H. Shepherd, Jr., Ecumenical Studies in worship, 1960.)

Whether you are looking for and seeking to become a priest, or talked with a friend or a minister, or in our study group on some of the mysteries lead us in a call to be part of the Christian life and the sensitivity of the Spirit is a good indication that the Holy Spirit and the manna of life is with and among we. our own name on it so that each one of us knows that
are a treasure with a gift of God.

Here we find the gift of the cross, and the way of the cross that is part of life and passion of Christ, obedient and chaste – in its gentle and know how a man born of Mary in the flesh of a human being shares with us in tears, jobs, and suffering that we live in our own lives. This gift of God, as a redemption of the world is a mystery
everyday and is the revelation of the Bible lived
in the liturgy of the days of the week between Sunday and preparing again to the church on Saturday. Here is
the entry point to the life of a Christian and religious life. This kind of life can start over again every day
and start again every week. In doing so, we are getting
hidden manna that allows us to proclaim the nature of the
Incarnation and of God as Trinity.
"If my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.
(John 14:14).

Thomas asks the Lord how can we know the path. Jesus responds that he is the way, truth and life. Across he can find the satisfaction of the Father, to know the Father: to see and be with Christ, as you can talk to and to abide in Christ, one is able to recognize that Christ is in the Father and the Father is in Christ.

This indwelling of Christ is the epiphany of light that reaches us after Christmas, a proof that the promise and the glory of God in redemption has come to our world. Faith
as small as a mustard seed is what is asked, and that
of little faith continue on the path to we can love him and keep the commandments of Christ. Christ promised that
he will ask the Father on our behalf to give us another
Advocate, will be with us for always. "This is the Spirit
of truth, whom the world can not receive, because it
neither sees him nor knows him. "
As children of God, we are promised Christ
come to us and live with us because we also live in
him. The summary of the law is one of the gifts that Christ is with us, and we renew our establishment with this summary: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all thy mind. This is the
the first and great commandment. And the second
is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.
The new commandment is that we love each other
as Christ loved us.

Jn 14:10
"Do not you think I am in the Father and the Father is in me?" The words that I say I do not speak for myself but the Father who dwells in me does his works. "

There is an old controversy that John 6:52 addresses, and it is about living outside the literal ingestion of the flesh of Jesus Christ. What we do in our life share the suffering and trial, the festival, and in light of the Son of Man, because they eat meat, drink blood, and thus have life in us. Through this participation the mystery of
faith in the wine and bread of the true drink of life is continuous. Those who wish to remain in Christ, so that you can and stay with it, do this for the living Father has sent us. Prayer prepares us for this spiritual embrace of nostalgia and the flesh of the community, which in this life and the other allows us to live a life Christian. In this spirit to embrace and join others in worship that we experience as individuals become the embodiment of the body so that we can through it comes to the Father. Esating of this support, and participation in activities and the living presence of Christ, given to us. Thus, one can reach it. "It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is useless. The words I have spoken are spirit and life." (John 6:63).

An interval Conclusion
We come across at all in the wounds of Christ in the Song of Songs of silent prayer and the noblest of prayer, so that "I must be the Sun" for that is why God has the joy and rest and where beauty is derived from love.
The greater the love, the greater the happiness. This is the rose, the hidden source of splendor of God everywhere.

[Robert Hale, a monk, Angelus appointment Silesius in short poems. (Angelus Silesius is new to me, however, had to pass along my exemplary work of these words in the seventeenth-century mystic. Son of the book Love in the mountains.)]

LA ROSA
The rose that here on earth is considered now for me. / Has flourished both in God from all eternity. (1:108)

The hidden source
Who would have thought of that! Darkness begets light, / The thing comes from nothing, death is life engender (4:163) the glory of God is everywhere. No spot is so small, no spark can be so tenuous, / The wise see no glory in the depths of God. (4:160)
ALL IN ALL
How did Benedict XVI to everyone in a sunbeam revealed? See, everything is hidden at all, and it is hidden. (4:159)

ON THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST
I look at the wounds of Christ as wide gates of heaven. / And I know I can go through these five ways safer. How can I get then walk near my God? / I'm going through the feet and hands come in the heart of love. (4:46)
"
Song of Songs
The king takes his girlfriend in the wine cellar. / That you can choose what most delights your taste. / If you want to be the Bride of God, God will take care of you well, / Nothing is to himself that what you do not trust. (4:88)

SILENT PRAYER
God goes far beyond all words expressed herein. / In silence, listening silently adored better. (1:240) noblest PRAYER
The noblest of somewhat sentence processing. / That in itself becomes what makes worship. (4:140)

I MUST BE Sun
For myself, I must be the sun, whose rays to paint the sea. /
The vast ocean and unhued of all divinity. (1:115)

Why God is joy and rest
Because God is One and Three, he is happy and the rest: /
The rest is in the Unit, the joy among the three. (5:283)

BEAUTY from love
Beauty from love, even God's face. / Of love
originates, or they lack brilliance. (5:292)

LOVE THE MAYOR,
THE GREATER THE BLESSING
The measure of all happiness for the love not assess. / La
have more love, more are going to have (5:295)

"In our prayers so you will always thank God,
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. "(2 Col 1:3)

Entering the contemplation of God and practice acts of friendship and good works, one is able to continue
to enter through the door of the sheepfold. In our current era, we are bombarded with so much evidence that it is difficult know what was meant to enter the sheepfold by the door.
In the manner of contemplation is simply an acknowledgment that the ways Christians can enter different when the
doorman opens the door for him. When we hear others
tell us we're on the right track, or when we ourselves feel that we on the right path, such
Concord is a useful indication that we are with the Lord.
The questioning of authority, and the testing of spirits, looking
aside and go see a way this is awake
practice to see who's ahead of you is a good way to determine when we are doing right.
The Church itself is a source of the types of lessons that will prevent us after a strange run or with the concierge when we ask a question more difficult is a good indication that we are in a spot that needs
another look. In a spiritual sense, this means discerning the spirits, recognizing that it is Jesus who is listening
for us. He is the door through which we enter the
The experience of the Triune God, which is the freedom we seek.

In this pasture, we can relax in our driveway for him
so we must be saved. Like a good shepherd, Christ,
his life for the sheep. No leaves when
The wolf is running or when the wolf snatches and
scatters the sheep.

No one flock, one shepherd, and he was and is
willing to give his life to take it again
us. "No one takes, but I put my own
agreement. "(John 10:17). This permanent disposal to pay attention and be in friendship with others is an indication that we are receptive to the spirit. We enter the power to set our time and treasures until
the power to take our time and treasures again. By
This means that we as individuals can commit
in our daily tasks to keep Christ before us, and we
in our daily struggles to start anew and renew ourselves
in our efforts to be prepared in the spirit and in our actions
to continue our lives as Christians.

For those who seek to be caretakers, to lead others, to care for them, to help to enter the Christ, we must
be willing to be present to each other. In this community
Christian practice will be able to persevere. We
continue in Christ for worship, worship,
obedience, care, and be present at the Triune God.
"Whoever enters through Me will be saved, and will
and exit and find pasture. "(John 10:9)

In partaking of the sacraments, we enter the
the mystery of the sacrifice that Christ's body is
as an offering by the will of God. Living this life is in his essays,
tired and their times, their limits and time in the flesh. This
is a real life in this world. No one can prevent
the need of aging, or sorrow, or disappointment.

By continuing in the way of Christ, we are entering
our reward celestial, and racing toward our heavenly
home. Through the practice of humility, as can private people participate in monastic ourselves in love God, by ascending through measures of good practice
and delight in virtue. The Rule of St. Benedict outlined
seven steps of humility that leads us through the love of God which casts out fear.

This ladder of humility is the same as Jacob saw in a dream. By practicing the steps in this way we climb ahead us the recognition that we can be with God.
• The first step of humility is to keep the fear of
God before our eyes. Living in the presence and sight
of God.
• The second step of humility is to do the will of God, imitating the actions and live the life of Christ as it is
shown and described in the Scriptures.
• The third step of humility is obedience to others by Cooper-ating with them or questioning them, or submit to a superior in the Christian spirit and faith. This means that
be awake when doing so, and in this manner is not
be locked in step and move on blindly, without
other the wrong way.
• The fourth step of humility is to persevere and be
brave heart and trust in the Lord. There is a reward
of God to come. • The fifth step of humility is to confess to others our sins and faults, and errors, injustices and forms. Doing these things we know that the Lord in prayer and self examination on a daily basis. Using the Decalogue is a good way to examine one's life by the Ten Commandments are
a gift from God. Remember that in doing so, confessing the Lord, that the Lord is good and his mercy endureth for ever.
• The sixth step of humility is to be happy with yourself
and many in life, to be where you are in life and live his own life when you're in today. God is present with
us where we are if we reconize that fact or not;
Christ is with us at all times. Be with the Lord forever reminding himself that he is present, and He is in you
and is in it.
• The seventh step of humility is that it is a blessing to be humiliated so that one can learn the commandments of
God, and live in the way of maintaining a perspective that we are human, but that passed as the grass that withers,
However, the Lord is from age to age.
• The transition from sessions of humility is which follows the
common standards of the community, or the monastic
or religious community. This can sometimes be difficult,
and it brought us to live with others and find our way. This requires a special kind of humility and often requires the example of those who are superior to us to be able to practice.
• The transition from sessions of humility is talking in a way
avoiding the sin, so that there is a torrent of words. Control the language for which they provide to other
with the encouragement or better things, instead of the
the deviations of others is misplaced in a constructive dialogue
way to practice this kind of humility.
• The tenth step of humility is to maintain a sense of humor about yourself and others, so that we as a
other and ourselves.
• The eleventh step of humility is to speak softly,
with a modesty and rationality that is sincere
others. Be effective in practice goodness, and talk about saying these words: fewer of them.
This is called being "in brief".
• The twelfth step of humility is to continue in a
walk, to lead the lets others know
being willing to listen smart, and that
others may recognize that they are willing to be
someone who lives with humility. The modesty of this
Such a practice is important because it is the love that we
do this kind of humility. It is in good habit
and delight in virtue of this ascent to be
in the presence of God, a joy and a desire to
to reflect on the 95th Psalm.

As a guide in the morning the 95th Psalm is a good guide
to live a life in God's presence, and one that is
from humility in the presence of the Lord.
This is a psalm that allows our heart is fixed,
and dance and walk in the joy of life
God has given us. This is why it is so important to
keep a prayer life. Persevere.

Come, let us sing to the Lord;
We will shout for joy to the rock of our salvation.
Come before His presence with thanksgiving
And raise a cry to him with psalms

For the Lord God is great, and great King above all gods.
In his hand are the caverns of the earth and the heights of the mountains are his.
The sea is his, as he did, and his hands have molded the dry land.

Come on, bending, and bend the knee, and kneel before the Lord our Maker
For he is our God,
And we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Oh, now listen to his voice! harden your heart,
As their ancestors did in the desert, in the strife, and on that day in Mass,
When I was tempted. I tested, Although they had seen my works.

Forty years I loathed that generation and said:
"These people are fickle in their hearts, they do not know my ways. "
So I swore in my anger: "Do not enter my rest."

– Peter Menkin, Osama Bin OSB Cam Laden

About the Author

Peter Menkin, an aspiring poet, lives in Mill Valley, CA USA (north of San Francisco).

My blog:
http://www.petermenkin.blogspot.com

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