The Yearning

time lends itself to fathoms

even before its own end surrenders

earthly limits have eternal desires

revealing the longing for
something more than limitations... 

appetites without lasting satisfaction

ends without barriers

even a beginning without an end

then without notice or regard

life impinges our assumptions

pushing questions into our consciousness

why’s douse the flame of un-reflective mania

pushing us beyond daily routines when

emptiness begins to fill us and

limitless waves of  needs / desires 

keep rolling-in to our inner shores

without the hint of fulfillment yet

are real...intentionally intimate

promises planted Divinely in

the innate recesses of our hearts

death’s finality and injustice

leave all seeking more than
life could possibly give

pointing to questions posed incessantly

some finality to seeking unspoken...

unwritten passions for a purpose...

some sense for the illogic of life

where did my journey begin? certainly

not in the limits of sources known

but in a perfection beyond sight

planted in the fibers of my being

in depths beyond knowledge

how soon will seeking cease?

what will be left undone...unfulfilled?

is life destined to the constant slavery of circles?

nature yearns for super-nature

being points to super-Being

time to timeless

temporary love to everlasting ecstasy 

where my limitless longings
can find rest

in a never ending

joy beyond imagination's fantasies 

so meaning’s questions negate busyness

if listening is at all a value for

if all there is lays in sight
though beautiful
it fades just as winter comes and
takes the crown of colors to loss

the cries of today fade to whispers

when tomorrow dawns yesterday’s sleep

without a satisfactory ending while
caught in recurring dreams

finding our endings empty

we are most to be pitied

we ache to
live forever
find completion

for our longings
yearning beyond the
daily filling and emptying cycle of basics and passions to

find our true end beyond ourselves in the

hidden realms of our beginning

a Source for what is...

for who I am and destined to become

a Creator yes but more than a

logical Source of Reality

beyond reason’s visible conclusions

where only Revelation can enlighten that

the Supreme Being is our Abba Father
who Himself is revealed by
His Son the Savior whose
Self-sacrifice is our
initiation into a Reality inspired by 

seeking Union without end

a shared existence of evermore
dreams turning into a progression of
Passionate / Intimate encounters 

melding into an Eternity of Fulfillment

and I and Thou become One...Forever

Reflection / Discussion:

-How does your experience of life concur or differ 

 from the portrayal given above?

-Why? How? Give examples.

-Without Infinite Love, how is longing resolved?

-How do you embrace the invisible?

-How does seeking the Infinite in the Finite work out?

-How does sorrow / loss / pain fit in to all this?

-After achieving a goal in this fleeting life, what then?