God is called and prayed as the dear spouce that is to come to this mourning soul that languishes in love. What does God then, whose help is ever upon the righteous and our ear at our prayer? He doesn't wait until the prayer is fully ended, but he pierces in the midst of the burning desire of that thirsty soul, and with a secret balm of heavenly sweetness softens the soul and comforts it, and makes it be so overcome with delight and joy that it forgets all earthly things for that hour, and he makes it to lose itself in wonder, as if it were dead from knowing ourself. And as in fleshly works we are so overcome that we lose the guidance of reason and so become all fleshly, right so in the ladder of contemplation our fleshly stirrings are so cancelled out that the flesh does not win over the spirit but is become all spiritual.
Guigo II - The Ladder of Four Rungs
How loving and merciful He is - that He sometimes doesn't wait until the prayer is fully ended...
ReplyDeleteOh yes, dear sister. Sometimes I vusualize God sitting up in heaven dropping little jelly beans down on us...sometimes we miss them and they fall to the ground, while other times we catch them in our mouths like a little cocker spaniel...and I can't make up my mind if I like the Red or the Black one's the best...
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