Conversations With A Priest Poem by D Loveday Morris

CONVERSATIONS WITH A PRIEST

How apt it is on this Sabbath Day
God should send you my way
To be there, to share, to care, of my thoughts and feelings;

How was I truly coping?
Was there hurt, moments of fear, elements of healing?
At the end of an emotional shift, I didn't expect this beautiful gift

You were there to open the door, to listen;
You were there you cared and nothing felt missing

A gift from God I knew you were
An angel in disguise
If we are not careful, too caught up, locked up, to open up we will miss things devine

It didnt matter that you were of a different persuasion, the differences I could not see
And if I didnt ask who you were, you were just someone like me

You were open and non judgemental
Like God Himself said, come let us reason together and reason we did..

So what is the reason that so many who claim to be of Him, working for Him be so out of reasoning?
Your way can't be the only way, God is too big for just that.
It is in our reasoning together that we become better apt

A conversation though philosophical,
May also be deemed political, spiritual, depending on one's persuasions
Persuaded we must; we do have a choice to trust

Trust that God is still in control,
trust thatas the story unfolds, despite the death toll,
He causes all things great and small to work together for the good of those who love Him

Yet even if you don't know Him well enough to trust Him,
Even if you never heard of Him,
he lives and knows you

Ifyou are willing to open up; show up, He might just send a priest to you
And in the end just like me,
you realise trusting God is therapy


An Extract From the Diary of a Jamaican Critical Care Nurse Living and Working in the UK

April 18,2020