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Every time you eat be grateful for it because hundreds of millions of people are still starving now. Be grateful for whatever food you have, no matter how much it is. Food is a basic human need that no human being throughout history can deny.

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Every time you eat be grateful for it because hundreds of millions of people are still starving now. Be grateful for whatever food you have, no matter how much it is. Food is a basic human need that no human being throughout history can deny.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #food #foods #savefood #hunger #hungry #starvation #starving #history #basicneed #basicneeds #humanneed #humanneeds #begrateful #grateful #imgrateful #noonecandeny #feedthehungry #feedpeople

Every time you eat be grateful for it because hundreds of millions of people are still starving now. Be grateful for whatever food you have, no matter how much it is. Food is a basic human need that no human being throughout history can deny.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #food #foods #savefood #hunger #hungry #starvation #starving #history #basicneed #basicneeds #humanneed #humanneeds #begrateful #grateful #imgrateful #noonecandeny #feedthehungry #feedpeople

Every time you eat be grateful for it because hundreds of millions of people are still starving now. Be grateful for whatever food you have, no matter how much it is. Food is a basic human need that no human being throughout history can deny.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #food #foods #savefood #hunger #hungry #starvation #starving #history #basicneed #basicneeds #humanneed #humanneeds #begrateful #grateful #imgrateful #noonecandeny #feedthehungry #feedpeople

Late, late the mind confessed:
wisdom has not sufficed.
I cannot take one step into the light
without the Christ.

Late, late the heart affirmed:
wild do my heart-beats run
when in the blood-stream sings one wish away
from the Incarnate Son.

Christ is my utmost need.
I lift each breath, each beat for Him to bless,
knowing our language cannot overspeak
our frightening helplessness.

Here where proud morning walks
and we hang wreaths on power and self-command,
I cling with all my strength unto a nail-
investigated hand.

Christ is my only trust.
I am my fear since, down the lanes of ill,
my steps surprised a dark Iscariot
plotting in my own will.

Past nature called,
I cry who clutch at fingers and at tunic folds,
“Lay not on me, O Christ, this fastening.
Yours be the hand that holds.”

Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D.
(Jessica Powers)

Christ Is My Utmost Need (1952; 1984)

Powers, J 1999, The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: This detailed image from Evening Prayer by Antoine-Émile Plassan (French, 1817-1903) was executed in oil on panel c. 1863–1864. This artwork comes from the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. (Public domain)

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/04/10/jess-utmostneed/

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