Mess-Bless (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, February 20, feast day of Our Lady of Bolougne, of (above) Blessed Julia Rodzinska, Saint Mildred of  Thanet, and Saint Amata of Assisi. Image from here.)

Mess-Bless

mess (n.)

…from Late Latin missus "course at dinner," literally 

"a placing, a putting (on a table, etc.)...--etymonline

The opposite of holy being 

sinful, how is it learned opposite as 

messy? With mess being originally a 

placing, putting, on the table–-

food now holy’s opposite too

(nestled by rabble of art supplies). As 

Rose Fairy brandishes stop sign, traffic

slows, and Heaven knows my 

life is still

a mess. 

*From prompt: After listening to Rainier Maria Rilke's Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to Go, and quote from  Ilia Delio, in Franciscan Prayer (“Spiritual desire is the experience of God’s presence in us or it may be the absence of God as well, since a feeling of absence may stimulate a yearning for God. It is the experience of delightful love and fearful emptiness”), freewrite about a seeming opposite/polarity in yourself. From Jamie Deerings's Spiritual Writing as a Pathway to Presence (Priory of Saint Placid, WA), February 19, 2022.