Poem: MORE AND MORE!

MORE AND MORE! (21 February, 2014)

(Dedicated to the re-tired!)

Everybody wants more and more.

They plead and plead, knocking on your door.

But they do not know what they really need.

Just a little Faith, the size of a tiny seed!

We rush about like chickens with their heads cut off.

It takes time and effort 

to learn to make a really good broth.

Now I know just what to do.

It is the ingredient of humble sweet love 

that will pull us all through!

                               By: Karla

LENT FOR CHILDREN Preface (Bilingue)

LENT FOR CHILDREN a thought a day by a Religious of the Cenacle

CUARESMA PARA LOS NINOS un pensamiento para cada dia POR Un Religioso del Cenaculo

Miraculously, I found this little book in the things that belonged to my Aunt of 100 years, who died recently.  Therefore, I am translating it to Spanish so that more people can pray with it!  It was printed in New York in 193l, by the Missionaries of Saint Paul, the Apostle!

Milagrosamente, encontre este librito en las cosas de mi Tia Regina, que murio hace poco a las 100 anos!  Asi, lo traduzco al espanol para que mucha mas gente pueda rezarlo!  Esta impresa en el ano 1931! Por “Los Misioneros de San Pablo del Apostolo en el Estado de Nueva York”!

FORWARD

Christ wishes us to remain as little children.  Does that mean we must never grow up: never get taller and stronger: never stop going to school?  No:  it means we must go to Him always as children in innocence, in confidence, in love.  He knows each one of us, knows our faults, knows each thing we do and each thought we have.  But he not only knows us; He loves us, and because of that love, he Can understand whatever we want to say to Him.  He is eager that we go to Him, little children that we are: and the author of this booklet shows us how we may do so particularly during the Holy Season of Lent.  John J. Burke., C.S.P.

PREFICIO

Cristo desea que mantengamos como ninos.  Este quiere decir que nunca tenemos que crecer, nunca estar mas alto o mas fuerte, nunca dejar de ir a la escuela?  No, quiere decir que debemos acercarnos a El, siempre, como ninos en inocencia, en confianza, en amor!  El nos conoce a cada uno de nosotros, conoce nuestros faltas, conoce cada cosa que hagamos, y cada pensamiento!  Sin embargo, no solo nos conoce, tambien nos ama, y por ese amor, El puede comprender todo lo que tengamos que decirle.  El esta pendiente de que vayamos hacia El, ninos que somos, y el autor de este libreta nos muestra como podamos hacer esto, particularmente durante este temporada de cuaresma.  John J. Burke., C.S.P.

Poem: DETERMINED HEART

(Domingo, February 23, 2014)

(In the reunion of Legion of Mary, the Priest, Father Alois Bachmann, talked about el “Corazon Indiviso”, talking about the choice of “money or God”, and it helped me think of this poem.  

Happy Birthday to Graciela, whose birthday is on the day I wrote this poem and she is a person with a decided heart!)

DETERMINED HEART

And it breaks my heart to see you running away.

After all that you gave.

Where will you find the peace that you once built?

And all you lived, and what was felt?

Make up your mind,

Decide which way to go.

Choose between two roads.

Win one to find it all!

A house divided falls!

Listen to your heart to hear its calls!

Put your feet in the true procession!

And gain the one best possession!

                              By: Karla

POEM: "SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT"

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (February 12, 2014)

(For: Happy Birthday Deborah Serebrisky, Feb. 19!)

So much was going on.

Seemed like almost everything was wrong.

The World looked gloomy and hazy.

At least said, sort of crazy.

What moves were to be made?

All the pieces set out, and laid.

The corrupt covering what they can.

Too many taking advantage, in humanity’s clan.

‘Didn’t know how to react.

The chance perhaps to make a pact?

So much has been heard; more than one began to preach.

High ideals seemed impossible to reach.

Then time, contention and treatment,

(With the help from family and friends),

Broke through to help us come to terms and to make amends.

No one seems to value the majestic,

Of the prayer, thoughts, and force of the unseen nearly autistic!

Real and deep concern often shows,

The secrets of the heart that only God knows!

                                     By: Karla