Floodgate of Love
O Holy Communion of Life and Love,
My Precious Lord,
I see as through Your eyes
That Upper Room
So warm, so full of Your Precious Love
And their hope in You.
Your Heart wells up with Love,
Your eyes with tears,
As you slowly gaze at them, so innocent...
How Your Heart desires to hold this moment.
How Your Heart desires to hold their faith
And touch their hearts with Your Love.
Your Heart tears as You tear the bread
Knowing all too soon they will betray You, deny You.
How You long for their innocent love,
Their trusting faith, to hold in Your Heart
Protecting it from the darkness to come!
As You hold the bread in Your hands, hesitating,
Everything You are pours into this Bread.
As You break the Bread,
Your Sacred Heart breaks also.
The Passion begins.
Sharing Your Broken Body with those You love
Your Heart burns, longing for this moment:
"I have longed with all my Heart to share this supper with you."
You look deep into the chalice of red wine.
A tear drops and mingles with the wine of forgiveness,
A token of Your humanity and ours.
As You speak Your words of Love
The wine becomes Your Precious Blood.
As You gaze into the depths of the chalice
You see what is to come, drinking in with Your Spirit
Your Covenant of Love.
Passing the Chalice of Your Blood to Your people,
They drink of it, sealing their Covenant with You
In Your Eternal Love.
O Holy Communion of Love,
You stand before us like a floodgate,
Aching to pour forth Your contents.
You long for and wait for our glance of recognition!
A faithful, loving glance and Your Host Body
Crumbles as the floodgate opens
And we are flooded with Your Graces and Love
And made new.
O Sacred Floodgate of Love
Break through our hearts and flood our souls!
Gethsemane of the Heart
There is a chill to this place
Where I crouch, waiting, shivering.
There is a darkness,
Here among the olive trees,
Isolating in its concealment,
Chilling to the soul.
I wait, my Lord, on You.
I know You are here, alone, waiting.
"Pray with Me, wait with Me," You plead.
I feel through the darkness
Warmth from the Heart I cannot see.
Moving toward this warmth,
My heart comes alive as I draw nearer.
I cannot see You now
But You lead me to You,
Drawing me in Silence into Your Sacred Heart.
I kneel before You, my Sorrowful King.
Tears come as I watch You weep,
Calling out the name of each of Your lost sheep.
I long to comfort You.
I wish my love could be enough!
To dry Your tears, my Lord.
To comfort Your Heart, O Divine Love!
The arms of my imperfect love
Surround Your sorrowful frame.
My hand reaches to wipe
Drops of Blood from Your brow.
Take comfort, my Lord!
Take comfort, I plead!
For a moment in Your Eternity
You look away from Your Sorrow
And Your eyes meet mine.
Your eyes searching deeply
Erase all thoughts of anything else
From my soul.
Your Heart reaches for mine and
For a moment there is only Peace;
For a moment there is only Love;
And in that Silence of Peace
I know what I must do.
After resting in Your Love
I must return to
Finding Your sheep.
Too Great a Love
As the breeze moves through
Those olive trees again,
Waiting and praying,
My eyes fix on You,
O Lord of Life, Sweet Savior.
Your eyes are closed in prayer,
A sweet communion with the Father
As You give Your Life over to His sweet Embrace,
Knowing the price of this Love.
Feeling Your anxiety and isolation,
I move to place a hand over Yours
In comfort, in love,
In regret for all that I have done
To place You here,
In regret for all that I have not done
To ease Your pain.
As my hand touches Yours
It leaves an imprint of Blood, like sweat,
On Your skin wherever I touch You.
Your Blood, O Sacred Substance of Love,
So easily shed for me,
Marks the encounter of our love.
Longing for Your Mercy,
Thirsting for Your Love,
Desiring to decrease Your pain,
I bow to Your Will
In obedience and love.
Come to me, Sweet Jesus,
While I watch and pray for Your
Take over of my heart.
Leave nothing remaining.
Take it all, Sweet Sacred Heart,
Into Yours.
Your eyes behold mine
And into Your Sweet Soul
I see the anguish of a billion minds
Too brilliant to see You.
Their thoughts pierce Your Brow
As a Crown of Thorns.
Pain and humiliation draw Your Blood
That tenderly traverses the
Face of Kindness, eyes of Love.
Let my love bind Your Wounds,
O Sacred Temple of Love,
And shield You from
The thoughts that pierce
Your Infinite Mind.
Let the breeze through those olive trees
Sweep Your thoughts free
Of their arrogance,
Of Your lost love.
May the flame that You enkindled
In this heart made for You
Bring You comfort if it may
As I adore You,
Most Sweet, Sacred Heart of Love.
I desire your heart, You say.
And I desire Yours, I reply.
And in that union of the Spirit
Is born the exchange of Salvation.
The gift of self into the other,
The hearts broken, burst
From the sweet pain
Of too great a Love.
My Jesus,
You are my Salvation.
Olive Garden of the Heart
In the cold chill
Of the dark church,
Your tears flow,
Your Heart is weeping
As I come to sit at Your feet.
In the darkness
I feel the cold wind
Rustle the olive trees.
I hear the mournful sounds
Of the night,
A backdrop to Your pain,
A harmony to Your loneliness.
There, while the world Sleeps,
You wait, alone.
Your Divine Love pierces Your Sacred Heart
Like the nails pierced Your hands.
Our blindness to Your desire for our hearts
Tears at Yours.
The emptiness of a universe
Echoes cold and vast
Without the love You desire
In return for Your Love and Sacrifice.
At Your feet,
I take the hand of my God,
Ultimate Majesty
With a trembling hand and heart,
Aching to be freed of the prison bars
Holding You out of our hearts.
In the deserted garden
My small human heart
Offers all that I am
To ease the pain
Of the Heart of my Savior.
How can I comfort
The Heart of such Majesty,
With so little that I am?
My heart pierces with Your pain,
Trembles with Your abandonment.
You cry out for love,
But all I have is all I am.
Take me to Your Cross with You,
So You will not be alone
In Your agony, I plead.
The wind rustles the olive trees,
Emphasizing the Silence.
Your hand in mine
Grows warm and tender
And the beat of Your Sacred Heart
Wells up in mine.
There, in the cold of abandonment,
Two hearts join
And beat as one.
I am Yours completely,
My Savior.
Born in Suffering
Your Sacred Heart pounds in pain near death
And tears from within,
A foretaste of agonies soon to come.
Wrenching in ripping pain,
You search, Beloved, for one
To comfort, to stay awake, to listen.
You search for a soft heart,
A gentle hand of kindness and love
On Your tortured brow.
But there are none,
Only an abyss of emptiness and pain
Surrounds You.
The Father speaks,
The Spirit moves,
And You surrender and are united in will.
Handing Yourself over,
Your Heart races
And trembles within
As the Father withdraws,
Giving You over to the will of His Love
For His weakened children.
Your tearful eyes glaze
As You turn within.
The Spirit of Love churns
In Your Sacred Heart, igniting a Fire.
There You meet the abyss of pain,
Surrendering to it,
Embracing it,
For the love of the Father.
For the love He sent You for,
You embrace the pain and the lurking Cross,
Knowing full well the depth of isolation,
Humiliation and agony soon to come.
Embraced, in Love, You are one with it
And Love pours forth in fountains
From Your Heart.
Your Love is so majestic, so powerful,
It seeps as Blood from Your pores
As Love and Suffering unite in You
And Your Sacrificial Death
Of the Covenant of Love
Begins.
Soon they will come
And Your loved one, the Betrayer,
Will hand You over to the ravaging crowds
With his one last insult to the King of Love;
Disguised as a kiss, he strikes his blow
To Your Sacred Heart
In the mockery of a symbol
Of Your Love.
In the abandonment already felt
As You long with Your Heart of the Universe
For a touch of love from God or man.
But You are alone, sweet Precious Heart
And willingly embrace the isolation;
For Your hope does not lie in the
Fickleness of love of the human heart,
But in its emptiness.
It is in the empty cavern of the human heart,
This abyss of pain,
That You live to fill the one who turns to You,
In isolation, in emptiness, and cries, "Come, fill!"
I reach to touch Your most Precious Heart
With my love, my Beloved.
I reach in my longing
To fill Your longing;
As You mine, I Yours.
And in that intersection of our hearts
A heaven is born
From the labor of suffering
In our hearts.
Carry Me in Your Heart
Emptied of tears,
Sweat of Blood on Your brow,
Your Heart is aching to near death.
Slowly You open Your eyes to the world again
As You hear the sounds of Your approaching trials.
One of Your own comes to You.
Smiling, he kisses the Lord of Love
And seals his pact with darkness.
"Would you betray your Master with a kiss?"
You speak one last time to Your chosen son.
How deeply he pierces Your Heart
Using a symbol of Your very substance, Love,
To turn You over to the powers of darkness.
One last time Your eyes, filling with tears,
Look deep into his soul
Searching for a remnant of Your Love.
But his eyes turn away and the
Clouds of darkness overcome him.
The crowd gathers to witness Your betrayal.
Brandishing clubs and sticks.
Where once were palm branches
So recently hailing You as King,
They now curse You as criminal.
The Voice of Your Father
Speaking words of Love
Quiets Your racing human heart
Filling it with the Divine.
His Voice in Your Sacred Heart
Speaks of the Love
That brought You here.
Closing Your eyes to their hate,
Their lust for power,
You sink into the Divine Heart
Surrounding Yourself with the Peace
That can only be found
In the Heart of the Sacred
And in knowing of the Father's Love.
Their arms are upon You,
Yet You are untouched.
The wait is over;
It now begins.
Deeper in Your Heart You sink.
You are seeing a homecoming
Of the lost children
Running into the arms of the Father.
The Face of Love puts on Joy
As His children return to His Heart.
Your Sacred Heart burns with this Love;
For this Spirit of Love and the Joy of the Father
You hand over Your Body to be broken,
Your Heart to be pierced,
Resisting nothing in Your Passion for Love.
You search the Eternal Memory
To find my face.
You look deep into my heart.
In Your Silent Voice You ask:
Will you come to my Heart
If I give You my Life?
Kneeling to Your Sacred Heart of Love,
I bury myself in You.
Together we are carried off
Into the dark night of death.
As You walk that Way to Your Cross
You carry me in Your Heart.