VIDEO AVAILABLE!! 2/23/26: Using Teresa of Avila’s poem, “Seeking God,” and through the unfolding of a dynamic process including music, image, silence and small group discussion, participants will reflect on Teresa’s poem and be led with her to finding God within. The poem can be found by clicking here (or scroll down below).
Many thanks to Florence Blyskal who so prayerfully presented St. Teresa of Avila's poem Seeking God to 25 participants. The evening was a grace-filled reminder that “For love you were fashioned deep within me [God].” We are God’s Beloved. What a grace-filled way to start the first week of Lent!
Here is the video from the February 23, 2026 Presentation: "Finding God Within"
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Monday, February 23, 2026 |
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7:00 - 8:30 PM, Zoom |
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Presenter: |
Florence Blyskal |
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Florence, a spiritual director and mother of four and grandmother of three, is a long-time lover of the mystics, who herself loves to pray with poetry. |
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Seeking God (St. Teresa of Avila)
Soul, you must seek yourself in Me
And in yourself seek Me
With Such skill, soul,
Love could portray you in Me
That a painter well gifted
Could never show
So finely that image.
For love you were fashioned
Deep within me
Painted so beautiful, so fair;
If, my beloved, I should lose you,
Soul, in yourself see Me.
Well I know that you will discover
Yourself portrayed in my heart
So lifelike drawn
It will be delight to behold
Yourself so well painted.
And should by chance you do not know
Where to find Me,
Do not go here and there;
But if you wish to find Me,
In yourself seek Me.
Soul, since you are My room,
My house and dwelling,
If at any time,
Though your distracted ways
I find the door tightly closed,
Outside Yourself seek Me not,
To find Me it will be
Enough only to call Me,
Then quickly will I come,
And in yourself seek Me.