Upon my bed at night
I sought him whom my soul loves;
I sought him, but found him not;
I called him, but he gave no answer.
‘I will rise now and go about the city,
in the streets and in the squares;
I will seek him whom my soul loves.’
I sought him, but found him not.
The sentinels found me,
as they went about in the city.
‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
Scarcely had I passed them,
when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
until I brought him into my mother’s house,
and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
----- mine,
You come to Me before dawn day after day, faithfully. You seek Me with hunger in your soul. I know you love Me but it is not as I desire you to love Me. You do not love Me as I love you. Your love does not bear the sweet fragrance of complete and total surrender to My will. Rarely do you give up the things that your flesh craves, often just out of habit but you give in without the least struggle. You make excuses for your little weaknesses giving into them without even a token resistance. Love worthy of the name worthy is the greatest of all the virtues for it is the essence of God. True love seeks not to please itself but lives to please the beloved and you call Me your Beloved, if this were true you would love Me with a love that hungers, thirsts, and pants for Me, and nothing would satisfy these longings except being union with Me. If you seek Me with the passionate desire of the divine lover who seeks and desires an eternal union, if you are prepared to give up everything to be all in all to Me, if you consider no sacrifice too great, no desire stronger than the desire to never be parted from Me even if means the loss of the whole world and everything in it, then having found Me you will find all that your heart as ever desired and we will be one just as My Father and I are one and your joy will be complete.
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