The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos

A Series of Poems from El Retiro

By: Christine Rodgers, July 2008

Decoration for Poetry
Six

I am cheered
by this news –
that my weakness
is yet my asset.

And that You
are my great
strength – alchemizing
my weakness

into rarest gold –
something bright
and dazzling
for the aching world.