“Oh, Lord, let me feel at one with myself. Let me perform a thousand daily tasks with love, but let everyone spring from a greater central core of devotion and love.” ~Etty Hillesum

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. “. ~Etty Hillesum

Etty Hillesum was a Dutch author and contemplative. In 1943 she was deported and killed in the Auschwitz Concentration camp.

I sit

I am

I enter my beloved’s heart

    and am held in love’s embrace

My only desire is presence

I ask nothing

I am content loving

My silence speaks my love

I am here

~ cmc