Belleville Cursillo Movement at PO Box 331, St. Libory, IL 62282 US - A LESSON FROM CURSILLO

and though it was too small inside for me
to stretch my arms out wide,

or let me stand up straight and tall,

this annoyed me not at all.

I crouched in my small world each day,

content to doze the hours away…

when a stray sunbeam, quite lost, I’m sure,

crept in through a tiny crack in the door.

A wandering thought it might have been,

but it shone with brightness I’d never seen,

and it lighted my world’s poor dim-lit way

and tempted me forth  to a sun-bright day.

I opened the door and stepped outside into a bright new world,

so high and wide!

With out-stretched arms to embrace it all,

I felt my soul stand straight and tall.

I knew that I would never go back

to that little world

with its pitiful lack
of all that made life glow and shine,

now that this wider world was mine.

So I closed the door and turned the key

on that little world

and that little me,

and I raised my face to the open sky

in a world love-wide and Heaven-high! 

DeColores!