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Thursday, June 30, 2011

If I offer all things and have not Love, I am nothing

Posted by Lynn O'Gorman Latchford at 5:04 PM 1 comment:
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Mists

Oh ethereal mists!

Belonging to the heavens.

My soul escapes to join you,

a voyage to eternity in blue and grey.

I hover in inquisitive delight

to take part in your glory!

Looking down on pedestrian earth,

never to return the same.


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"Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, the future to His Providence" Augustine

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Lynn O'Gorman Latchford is a writer, poet, photographer, an Oblate to St Mary's Abbey and mother of two adult children. She is pursuing a Doctoral degree in Theology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland following Research in Psychoanalytical Studies at Trinity concurrent with Masters work in Systematic Theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology, Seton Hall University (MAT 2010). She was awarded the 2007 International Poet's Award for the poem "Unmoving." Her current projects include writing "Only Kindness Spoken Here," "God Is Not Great: He Is Awesome," and "God Family Country: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Monk." She is working on a book about the spiritual life and theology of suffering of Mother Teresa and her dissertation and a documentary on "Benedictine Balance & New Monasticism for the 21st Century: ad deificum lumen - Contextualizing A Normative Benedictine Text"

Lynn is part of an International Spiritual Movement on New Monasticism... How to cultivate monastic spirituality in the midst of a chaotic world through peace, harmony and unity of all faiths. Purity of heart is the first step to perfect charity, a love that recognizes all as neighbor.

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