Poverty of Spirit

In my poverty and pain, let your help set me on high (Ps. 69:29).
He crowns the poor with salvation (Ps. 149:4).
He has filled the hungry with good things, but the rich he has sent away empty (Lk. 1:53).
Apart from me you can do nothing (Jn. 15:5).
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Mt. 5:3).

We must become poor and empty if love would enter and abide with us. Poverty makes us free, supple, and flexible beneath the action of the Holy Spirit, the master of true love (Pinckaers).
Poverty of spirit is the doorway through which we must pass to become authentic human beings. It is the meeting point of heaven and earth (Metz).
In abandoning ourselves to poverty, we abandon ourselves to God. Poverty of spirit becomes the doorway to an encounter with God and to immersion in transcendence (Metz).
We are poorest and most free when we are walking in darkness; walking in faith. Darkness is the place of pure faith, pure surrender, and where love reigns (Rafferty).