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Wisdom Quote
Every idea of Him we form, He must in mercy shatter. The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed ..."
*C.S. Lewis. Letters to Malcom: Chiefly on Prayer
Mystical Love Poem
Such Loveliness, As This
The Wine glass shattered and
I fell into a dizzying world ...
I saw myself making Love with you,
When there arose a most Beautiful Sight
And this Surprise
Disclosed to me a delicious quiet;
A taste so sweet, beyond sweetness true,
my blunted tongue could barely receive
Inside, while as dark as Night, together,
I first heard the whisper,
I who had sought you, to me you spoke,
"And did you not know I so sought you, too?"
I started to reply, stammering so awestruck;
but wordlessly you said,"Hush!
My Precious, relax, words lighted the way to my bed,
Silence will now lead you to my Heart."
And so I did rest, and rest the more,in your arms
with mind asleep and Love awake in Love.
"Friends, your thoughts a sacrament of grace; now,
only Silence will undress such Loveliness as This."
There is such a fall, into such a world,
Fortunate are those who find themselves lost There.
*Brian K. Wilcox, 06/21/07
Choose a song, of any genre, that expresses the universal human longing for True Love. Pray or sing it to the Sacred. Adjust the words to fit your experience of the Divine, or to fit how you would like to experience the Presence of God.
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