Saint Friends

How to befriend someone you cannot see,
and how to talk to one you cannot hear?
By faithful prayer, friends we will come to be,
this “Cloud of Witnesses” that’s ever near.

For friends like these whose lives are spiritual
can see and hear us every day and hour,
in heaven such miracles are natural,
nothing’s impossible with Godly power.

Their world--eternal, spiritual--is more real,
the more we enter it with faithful prayer,
its goodness, truth and beauty they reveal,
the more we’ll recognize each other there.

Our earthly friends we’ll have to leave behind,
but not our old saint-friends in heaven we find.

                 by Pete Voelz        4/20/15