Love is One: a prose poem

Monday, April 03, 2017

Have you tasted love, even for a brief instant?

If you have, then you have tasted God

for God is Love.

What was that love? a feeling? an emotion? a hunger? a thirst?

or all of the above?

And where did it come from?

From yourself, you say? But nay,

it was put there

by the Object of your love,

by the Beloved.

What you experience is Him experiencing you.

You reflect His feeling, His emotion, His hunger, His thirst for you.

Rumi explains it:

I used to think that love

And beloved are different.

I know they are the same.

And before him, Pseudo Macarius (c.400)

rejoices in the wonder of it all:

The soul is linked with the Lord, and the Lord, full of compassion and love, unites himself to it and it dwells in his grace. Then the soul and the Lord are one spiritually, they form one life, one heart. (46^th homily)

Offer that love you once tasted

to the Beloved,

and it is all One.

You, the Love, the Beloved,

a taste of the Divine Trinity, of the Father loving the Son with the love which is Spirit.

Too much to grasp?

then leave it aside.

Let not thinking obscure the praying.

Rather, shoot darts of your love into God

and Himself wraps it back around you.

Rest there briefly

and discover new priorities

in a world so distracting

that few anymore can rest in the Love

with which He reaches out to you.

God bless you!