Invitation to Prayer
Watch for the white rose.
*In the poem, THE DIVINE COMEDY, Dante envisions paradise and beholds the
See it in dreams delicious with beauty,
after diamond-winter snows,
in the midst of struggles and seasons,
and between journeys and jolts.
It appears as a whisper,
as a delicate light in deepest darkness,
as silence in terrible storms,
as bud emerging from thorny growth,
and as breast milk on an infant’s lip.
It is the scent of mother love:
a holding of the Infinite and finite as one.
Behold this glimpse of glory.
Offer gratitude for its sighting.
Then quickly return to gazing.
You have done no-thing
to create such mystery.
It is gift. It is now. It is free.
Be gift. Be now. Be free.
Watch
for a white rose.
Trinity and Woman, representing Wisdom, Creation, Mary, seated on a white rose.
Haiku: Beauty Moves the Soul
The soul sees beauty
And is moved to know itself
As full when empty
Presence
An epiphany of the almost
There is a painting that accompanies this poem that can be seen in the Art Gallery
Seen… yet not
Felt… yet not
Known… yet not
Subtle… yet not
Like fog
Celling me in the “here”
Breathing misty whispers of “near”
Like whale prints
Serving a smooth watery circle
amidst wild waves
Then fountaining a deep dive
into ocean caves
Here I am
Watching and waiting
Gazing and greeting
Being one with
Almost
Yet …..
Georgene L. Wilson is a Wheaton Franciscan Sister, a friend, teacher, spirit companion, artist, and poet and a retreat animator. She lives as a neighborhood contemplative in Wheaton, Illinois at Wisdom Webbings Anchorhold. Out of this neighborhood house of prayer and service she invites others to engage whatever their lives present and return blessings so that together we may make of this world something beautiful and ONE COMMUNION.