POEMS: Abba Father

�It is the spirit of God in us that enables us cry out Abba Father�
What and assurance!
All that is asked is endurance.
There is a need for the cultivation of temperance
which germinates and yields in abundance,
the graces with which Christ transforms us.

When I was younger,
there grew in me this hunger,
I tried but I could wait no longer.
For the satisfaction which comes from yonder.
In bounty, I felt no need of others
� even if they were my brothers,
I cling like a baby to a mother.
Weaned now, I need be spent for myself
and for others.
When I falter, I cry out Abba Father!