❤️ “God is a strange lover; the story of His love is most surprising.”
On Valentine’s Day, Carmelite poet Jessica Powers reflects on God’s love—a love that purifies, strips away illusion, and at last fills the soul with light.
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👣 “Take off your shoes here; it is holy ground.”
In her poem "On Reading Saint Peter of Alcantara," Carmelite writer Jessica Powers evokes solitude, humility, and choosing God alone.
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✨ In this Christmas season, Carmelite poet Jessica Powers invites us to see the Star of Bethlehem not as distant history, but as a light present wherever Christ is received.
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🕯️ Carmelite poet Jessica Powers reflects on how Come becomes Advent’s word of longing and hope—a simple, steady plea for the God who draws near.
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🕊️ Carmelite poet Jessica Powers writes about the soul's secret sanctuary where God dwells as living flame. Sometimes the interior light overflows, and others glimpse Paradise shining through.
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🌅 "She is utter light by Your own grace. And in her morning I can see Your Face." Jessica Powers on how Mary becomes our eastern sky, revealing God within the soul.
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🌟 "God is the strangest of all lovers; His ways are past explaining." Jessica Powers wrote about love that doesn't look like what we expect—sometimes it comes through loss, not gifts.
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Jessica Powers asks Christ the Beggar,
“Must all my purse be emptied in Your hand?”
This 1937 poem haunted her into the cloister of Carmel.
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“Love hurried forth to serve.”
Jessica Powers gives us Mary on a jolting donkey, moving into truth.
No pastels. Just the real road to Ein Kerem.
📷 Goatherds, John Singer Sargent
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“Oh, to become a pure pool like the Virgin…”
A Marian reflection from Carmelite poet Jessica Powers.
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💬 “I love Abraham,” writes Jessica Powers.
She sees the raw courage of faith in his footsteps—and longs to follow. Mine is a far and lonely journey too.
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God’s love is not like human love. 💜 Carmelite poet Jessica Powers reveals the paradox of God's love this Valentine’s Day. Let Him love you!
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🌿 "Birds deserve one whole psalm of thanksgiving." Carmelite poet Jessica Powers reflects on the beauty of God’s creation and offers praise for His courtesies of love. 🕊️✨ #CarmeliteQuotes #JessicaPowers #poetry
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