Meditation for January 2012

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Judith reads:

The Voice of Longing

Even when everything you want is on your table, and everyone you love is there in your life, you still feel something is missing. …Something that feels vital to you lies out of your reach in the unknown. The longing to fill this absence drives some people out of the truth and shelter of love; they begin a haunted journey on a never-ending path in quest of the something that is missing. Others seek it in the accumulation of possessions. Again this small voice leads other people into the quest for the divine.

The voice comes from your soul. It is the voice of the eternal longing within you. …The eternal longing will always insist on some door remaining open somewhere in all the shelters where you belong. When you befriend this longing, it will keep you awake and alert to why you are here on earth. John O’Donahue, Eternal Echoes Pg. 10/11.

Do you feel as if there is something missing in your life? Are you longing to fill that absence? What is it that you are seeking? Do you try to fill your emptiness with possessions or are you on a quest for the divine?

Now, at the beginning of a New Year, is a good time to start listening to the voice that comes from your soul, the voice of the eternal longing within you.

Each of us has been sent to earth for a purpose. Have you found your life’s purpose yet? Take the opportunity of this New Year to seek out the open door in your life, the open door of eternal longing whereby you will find the divine and your purpose for being here on earth.

 © Judith Lawrence January 2012

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