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Journey InwardDeep the...
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Journey Inward
Deep the river runs in silence
joining humankind to Triune God --
Creator, Spirit, Born-of-Woman
Deity within us,
living through us, yet unknown.
For noise of daily living
leaves us senseless to the silence,
the quiet, holy places seldom trod,
lost to knowing
as busy lives preclude
our search for self, our search for God.
Strangers to ourselves and to each
other,
we fill our shallow lives
with emptiness and questions
for which we have no words.
Yet unnamed hunger draws us
Deep the river runs in silence
joining humankind to Triune God --
Creator, Spirit, Born-of-Woman
Deity within us,
living through us, yet unknown.
For noise of daily living
leaves us senseless to the silence,
the quiet, holy places seldom trod,
lost to knowing
as busy lives preclude
our search for self, our search for God.
Strangers to ourselves and to each
other,
we fill our shallow lives
with emptiness and questions
for which we have no words.
Yet unnamed hunger draws us