Meditation for November 2011

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Judith reads:

Contemplation as Divine Osmosis

Early in the morning, I come to be with you, O Lord, to seek you out, to find you within, and to be at one with you.

God is self-disclosed to the soul; and that soul rushes out willingly to lose itself in Him. Thus a “give and take”—a divine osmosis—is set up between the finite and the Infinite life…For a moment, at least, the independent spiritual life is achieved. The contemplative is merged in it “like a bird in the air, like a fish in the sea’: loses to find and dies to live. Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism Page 225

What is it that the soul loses and finds? The soul loses its tether to the earth and soars into the spiritual air; the soul dies to all that would bind it to earthly goods and desires in order that it may live in the midst of the spiritual flow and mystery in its longing to be at one with God.

The soul waits patiently at the threshold of God’s sacred being until it is lifted and drawn within the essence of God’s grace, surrounded by the circle of God’s love, and wholly united with the Sacred One.

Float in the spiritual air, O my soul, powered by God’s holy breath, given completely to God’s love.

 © Judith Lawrence November 2011

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