meditations on nouwen and merton

Beloved Echo

(a Nouwen-inspired charismatic poem)

I come with cracked hands, Spirit,

Offer my wounds as open wells.

Breathe through this broken vessel—

Let Your river of grace pour over every fracture.

In the still before sunrise, You whisper:

“Child, you are My beloved.” My heart,

once a battlefield of doubt, Now dances

in the flame of Your affirmation.

Fill me, Holy Fire— Let mercy flow

like living water, From these scars testify,

From these tears a temple of praise.

(a Merton-inspired charismatic rendition)

In cloistered silence I once knelt;

Now I stand in Spirit’s gale.

The stillness cracks—

Your breath becomes my song.

Mountains bow, rivers roar:

Creation’s chorus of jubilee.

My soul, a deer panting for nearness,

Leaps into the anointing tide.

O Spirit, shatter these walls,

Carry me beyond solitude

Into the whirlwind of Your presence,

Where every heartbeat echoes “Hosanna.”