Why am I afraid
of the silence that reveals
the Truth deep within -
The silence that draws me away
from the glitter,
the noise,
the rush to buy, to gratify,
to prove myself - to who?
"Everything can wait!"
The Wise Men proclaim.
"Set your face like flint
upon the Light
that knows no darkness!"
Then the Shepherds beckon me to run -
Run to the Promise they heard that
silent night,
"You are no longer an outcast,
a stranger, an orphan!"
Away, away from dark fears and into wonder
For the silence calls me -
to encounter the Light,
to recognize the Promise,
to see the Virgin - ah! - holding God.
Sr. Catherine Mary, CFR