Good Shepherd mine;Whatever made You leave the ninety-nineTo come like this in search of one lost sheep?What raging fireConstrained Your loving Heart? What mad desireImpelled You on to comb the mountain steep?
Strange mystery:That you should find such joy in finding meWhen it should seem the joy should all be mine.Please hold me fast;Don't let me stray again as in days past,But hide me safe within Your arms divine.
When in the WestThe sun of my life's day shall sink to rest,Enfold me still, O Lord, in Love's embrace.Then with the dawnOf that new Day, when night fore'er is gone,Dear Shepherd mine, let me behold Your Face.
By a Carmelite Nun
Published with the kind permission of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Rochester, NY
And do check out the book by Mother Therese Marie.
And do check out the book by Mother Therese Marie.
2 comments:
Brings tears to one's eyes.
julygirl, ditto
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