"Meditation" After Using the Bathroom

Hello, everyone! Here's wishing you Happy Thursday! It's summer as its best over Hampton Roads, with clear, blue sky and plenty of sunshine. And humidity, too! Thanks to God, our new AC units is doing or functioning so efficiently well.

While in the bathroom this morning, I was reading The Valyermo Chronicle of St. Andrew's Abbey in California. I've read a couple of interesting, enlightening articles in this publication. (Periodically, I receive this publication since I started helping the abbey there. It's worth supporting them financially---the Benedictine monks and men of God. I pray, God, bless them always! May they continue to serve and love you in all that they do!)

After using the bathroom in our (Master's) bedroom (my wife is still in bed in deep slumber), I thought about this "Meditation" while already sitting on a Queen Anne's chair by my bedside. Here's what I've just written or composed:

Meditation 

alone 

(in my mind)

 in a quiet room

seeking Peace

in a turbulent world

where there's noise

too much to bear

(or to take or to handle)

all around, outside

my own world

here, I long

for that elusive Peace

always on my mind

for so long

I've been feeling

void and hopeless

confused and frustrated

so desperate to live

to love to live freely

without being alone

amidst living with others

in this crazy, noisy world

so here I am

alone

seeking Hope

that I may be hopeful

to continue living, breathing

and doing what He wants me

to be, to do

while looking and longing for Love

to love me more

than myself

in harmony with Peace

and Hope

leading me 

to my Salvation

and eternal Happiness and Life.

copyright 2012 by chris a. quilpa

Thanks, folks, for your time with me. Take care and Have a fun-filled and safe summer, everyone!