This Week’s Focus:
Experiencing the Poetry of divineFlow
Note to readers: Over the past six Mondays, I’ve shared different words and phrases from the Divine Flow (aka divineFlow) lifestyle—simple invitations to help you quiet your mind and open your heart. As we continue this journey together, I’d like to offer something a little different yet born from the same contemplative stream.
For the next six Mondays, I’m sharing a special series called The Poetry of divineFlow—short poems that arise from my Quiet Times of solitude and prayer.
These pieces come from a quiet place within me where I listen beneath the noise and sense God breaking through the silence, penciling words upon my heart.
My hope is that each poem offers you a gentle pause, a breath of stillness, and a doorway into your own inner sanctuary with God.
Each post in this series also has two companion reflections after the poem:
In the Quiet offers a glimpse into the inspiration behind the poem—how it arose from a time of stillness, openness, or seeking God. It’s a brief reflection that invites you to enter the same contemplative space with me.
Your Turn invites you to take the poem beyond reading and into practice. Here, you’re invited to pause, breathe, and notice how a word, phrase, or image from the poem resonates in your body and heart, allowing the Divine Flow to enfold and guide you in your own quiet encounter with God.
Step in, receive the words, and let the poem carry you into stillness.
I have also recorded the poem if you prefer to listen to it. Click here to listen.
divineFlow
I can’t get there—
I can only get out of the way.
I can’t make it happen—
I can only be still,
open my heart,
allow Divine Grace to fill me,
guiding me toward my Highest Self—
the Self that dwells in God
and is God living in and through me.
The footprints of spiritual heroes—
Jesus, St. Francis, Mother Teresa, Thomas Merton—
mark the path to divineFlow.
Is it real—this Higher Self and God?
I don’t know.
It’s beyond reason.
Yet my heart trusts.
Love draws me closer with every breath
to the Source of my Being.
Grace embraces me
like air drifting through a flute.
I enter divineFlow.
I know without understanding—
this Spirit touching my soul is Real.
I long to be consumed
by the Holy Fire that does not destroy
but awakens everything within me
to the ecstasy of being One
in God’s Love.
— brian j plachta
In the Quiet
This poem emerged from a Quiet Time when I reached for God but experienced only silence. Unable to touch, taste, or fully grasp the Mystery that seemed to seek me, all I could do was to be still, let go, release the need to understand, and simply receive the Divine Presence that found me.
Your Turn
Settle into stillness, close your eyes, and breathe as though you’re opening your heart from the inside.
Let a word or phrase from the poem rise within you—divineFlow, Highest Self, Holy Fire, Grace embraces me—or whatever speaks to your heart.
Repeat the word or phrase to yourself a few times.
Let the words quiet your mind and sink gently into your heart as a sacred prayer.
Notice in your body what the word or phrase evokes within you—what it feels like as it flows through you.
Experience whatever arises: a warmth, a whisper of calm, a quiet light glowing within you.
If your mind wanders, return to your sacred word or phrase.
Let it enfold you. Embrace you.
Receive it as a gift—a simple, steady presence of being held in God’s divineFlow.
Have a blessed week.
Your friend in the flow,
brian
P.S. If today’s reflection offered a taste of inner peace, the book, Finding Flow: Spiritual Practices to Reclaim Inner Peace, Balance, and Wholeness can be a wonderful companion for your spiritual journey or a thoughtful Christmas gift for a loved one. Click the link below to purchase your copy. Let the book encourage, inspire, and guide you and others to quiet moments, inner peace, and the grace of living in the divineFlow.
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