A Daily Catholic Moment. Peter Celano

      At the monastic center

      is always a cloister,

      an orchestrated emptiness,

      a place of light,

      a fountain to feed

      the heart’s garden.

      Give me this life:

      a center empty

      of all but light,

      the stillness of Eden

      before fruit was plucked,

      my heart a spring

      of living water.

       My heart is a cloister for only You, today.