Reflection 

Seeking and Finding
 

When you search for me, you will find me;
when you search wholeheartedly for me, I shall
let you find me.

 Jeremiah 29:13

I search for God,
elusive, hidden God,
I long to dwell
in the heart of Mystery.

I search for my true self
more of who I already am,
knowing there's so much
yet to be discovered.

I search for a quiet heart
amid life's harried schedule;
my soul cries out,
yearning for solitude.

I search for compassion
in a world gone deaf
to the cries of the hurting,
and the pleas of the powerless.

(extract from Joyce Rupp's Prayer, Seeking and Finding from May I have This Dance, Ave Maria Press, 2nd Revised Edition 2007)