November 2008


listening to an amateur orchestra play a really good Symphony by a composer you Love dearly…

I KNOW what I will be experiencing is this Wonderful, Masterpiece; minutes and hours of crafting and molding put together, with the ultimate goal of perfection.

All the evidence point to the FACT that the near future will hold for me a perfectly balanced harmony of tenderness, excitement, joy and adventure. There might be some unexpected crescendos and partitudes in sorrow, but all of them eventually unfolding into a great climax of Abundance and unwavering Peace.

As much as I Know this, am expecting it and looking forward to being a part of it all, I cannot really relax into this truth, before I can sense it happening to me.

When the people close to me, the ones that are assumed to play important roles in presenting this reality to me, show signs of being out of tune or unable to perform their part with skill, my Heart starts wavering… it might be the slightest motion, moving to e-motion, and from a faltering Heart the path is not long to end up in a state of tremble.

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Lord, you are my lover, the object of my desire, you are like a stream flowing through my body, a sun shining in my face. Let me be your reflection.

 

 O Lord, love me intensely, love me often and long! For the more often you love me, the purer I become. The more intensely you love me, the more beautiful I become. The longer you love me, the holier I become.

 

O burning mountain, O chosen sun, O perfect moon, O fathomless well, O unattainable height, O clearness beyond measure, O wisdom without end, O strength beyond distance, O clearness beyond measure, O crown beyond all majesty, the humblest thing you created, Sings your praise.


I cannot dance, O lord unless you lead me.  If it is your will, I can leap with Joy.  But you must show me how to dance and sing by dancing and singing yourself! With you I will leap towards love, and from love I will leap to truth, and from truth I will leap to joy, and then I shall leap beyond all human sense. There I will remain and dance for evermore.

 

 

Mechtild of Magdeburg (1210-1280)


cup of Peace

Today I had one of the best Dates ever, in my life so far…

It is soon three months since our honeymoon started. I’ve taken time, about once a month, to spend a day, a whole week or just one afternoon, together with My Beloved. One Saturday it was adventures in the woods, enjoying swimming naked in the river and walking bare feet on the shores. Another time we went dancing for a whole week – just the two of us, surrounded by others, joining in, in the same tunes – what a pleasure trip – yes indeed :)

Today we went down-town, sitting in a Café reading, enjoying pasta and a glass of good red wine. Viewing the rainy streets and sipping a hot White Chocolate Piece of Art Latte. Then we walked, side by side, down to the Extravagantly Beautiful Concert hall, to listen to, be engulfed in, an overflowing Outpouring of stings, rhythms and brass. The intensity and magnitude of this glorification, devotion and praise touched me deeply.

Throughout centuries, for the passing millenniums, human kind has been co-creating wondrous small pieces of Beauty… I  believe, All of us, knowingly or unaware, are giving of ourselves as an act of worship. This afternoon, I got to share hundreds of these pieces, displayed all around us, with my beloved. Experiencing (a small part) the deep Gratitude with which HE receives these Gifts of ours, carried forth, to Him, for Him, in Him and through Him. 

What kind of Love is it, that bears fruit, in such Multitude? What kind of Lover do I have, who can simultaneously share these things with me, genuinely Delight in Me, while at the same time BEING the source for all creation?

My Dearest friend sent me this poem the other day:

Only                                                                                                                                            that illumined                                                                                                                            ONE

who keeps                                                                                                                          Seducing the formless into form

 Had the Charm, to win my Heart

 

Only a perfect                                                                                                                            ONE

who is always                                                                                                                     Laughing at the word                                                                                                                Two

Can make you know                                                                                                                      of                                                                                                                                             LOVE

 

Why would I ever settle for Less? (more…)