Title: “The Door We Never Opened”
Description: This is a poem of transformative awakening within ourselves. It is a journey out of the claustrophobic, one-dimensional experience of time, where we are trapped in cycles of regret and anticipation and into the spacious, eternal Now of God’s presence.
At the root of all suffering lies a traumatized capacity to abide in the Presence that alone is ultimately real. Here we listen for guidance, for the quiet promptings of Spirit that lead us gently to be experientially established in what never leaves us.
And as this inner journey unfolds, it gravitates naturally — inevitably — toward the mystery of the Cross: the axis where time and eternity meet, where death and resurrection are one, where the door we never opened opens of itself.
Reading: Joseph Schmitz read from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, ‘Burnt Norton’, 1st stanza, roman numeral 1.
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