Dawn and a New Day

Until Your Own Dawn

St. Catherine of Siena

Daybreak:

everything in this world is a luminous divine dream

I have spun.

I did not know life was a fabric woven by my soul.

Any form that can appear to you-should I confess this?-

it is something I made.

All roots nurse

from 

me.

God's art is mine.  I did not want His divine talent.

It simply grew in my heart from the way I

loved.

Existence is a young child moving through

a lane at night;

it wanted to 

hold my

hand.

Here, dear earth, hold me,

until your own

dawn.

Paulo Coehlo

Every day, God gives us the sun - and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven’t perceived the moment, that it doesn’t exist – that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention in their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seems the same to us. But that moment exists – a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

God of the new dawn and of the new day

I pray that I may recognize beauty 

the beauty of the blazing light 

light, golden and burnt orange

rising from the dark 

lighting a fire in my soul

May I see the dawn

the rising of the sun

everyday

Amen