Nada te turbe

The famous poem of St. Teresa of Avila has been bouncing around in my head, ever since I sang a Taize rendition with my college chapel choir a quarter-century ago:

So it was heartwarming to behold the text in beautiful script, at the Convent of the Annunciation in Alba de Tormes:

Tastefully elegant.

Tastefully elegant.

Nada te turbe
nada te espante
Todo se pasa
Dios nose muda.
La paciencia todo alcanza.
Quien a Dios tiene 
nada le falta
Solo Dios basta.
Let nothing disturb you,
nothing frighten you,
All things are passing.
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing.
God is enough.

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