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TAKE AND RECEIVE
Oh Music Maker, breaker of all pre-packaged melodies,
take and receive all my white notes, and the black ones the full tones and semi tones, the scales, upward and downward, give heed to my chromatic movements.
take and receive the sharps and flats, the naturals, the pauses and the rests of my ever unfolding sacred narrative.
celestial musician, weaver of all things new, take and receive the cords - major and minor, dominant and diminished, the augmented and the suspended,
and the discords, impatiently awaiting a resolution.
take and receive the wild and tame rhythms of my life: the allegro and the adagio, the legato and the staccato, the pianissimo moments, so soft and silent that one has to get tenderly close to hear, and the fortissimo moments, so loud that one is tempted to plug the ear with one’s fingertip.
take and receive this unfinished symphony of my life
give me only your love and your grace; with these two notes I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more. unfinished as I may be, knowing that this too, is a pregnant blessing.
philip chircop sj 31st July, 2014 | Feast of St Ignatius Loyola
Photo & Poem | Philip Chircop