Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices. ~ St. Teresa of Avila
Was I conceived in love,
and for love?
We are all born
with your precious DNA in our hearts and souls,
my Beloved.
We come to experience life
in order to discover You.
You have chosen to abide
in the deepest chambers of our hearts.
Never once,
You have left my side.
Human love is so conditional
and limited, but when we are inspired
and touch by Your divine love,
our love can be transform
and become real. Alive!
Your love is everlasting,
my Beloved.
You have placed your heart
so full of tender mercy and love
in mine.
O, how blessed I am,
my Beloved!
Your love gives me life,
gives me hope,
gives me joy.
Your love is my stronghold
and my peace.
All my life you have been
by my side,
and that suffices.
I was born for love.
We are born for love.
Because You are love.
King of my heart and soul.
Love in One.
One Love,
Pure and Perfect!
I can say like the Sufi mystic and poet Rumi: “Love came and it made me empty. Love came and it filled me with the Beloved. It became the blood in my body. It became my arms and my legs. It became everything! Now all I have is a name, the rest belongs to the Beloved.”
My Beloved, you are the author of all seasons. At the arrival of each one, you leave your footprints in my garden.
Now, is the glorious season of autumn. Here where I live, in this beautiful North, the majestic beauty of your touch is everywhere to be seen.
The precious gift of your presence is always a special grace in my garden.
My Beloved, my flowers are still in bloom despite the late night cold breeze. But the maple tree is already showing the vibrant hues of red and orange leaves.
Oh! Blessed Lord! The birds always welcome your divine presence in my garden, they whisper in my ear that your gentle steps are approaching, and I know you are near calling me to come to your presence and rest awhile.
Autumn, this glorious season of change, is also of transformation and beauty. I can sense your gentle presence within me, transforming and revealing within my soul new insights illuminated by your precious light, leading me in my own journey of self-discovery and towards you.
Beloved of mine, how I long for these moments of being in your holy presence! Quietly listening to you, awakening my heart.
Your voice I seek, your warmth I crave, you give me an abundance of unconditional love.
Thank you, my Jesus!
Oh! My Rabboni, I love you! I want to live to love you! Each and every day and night of my life. Let us walk together along this path in my fall garden. This tender precious moments I’ll always treasure within my heart and soul.
Let me embrace you, my Beloved, with endless love and gratitude forever!
“Come,” says my heart, “seek God’s face”; your face, Lord, do I seek! Psalm 27
‘Gazing into the eyes of the Beloved’, by unknown artist
My Beloved, My heart yearns for your gaze. Your presence reveals this yearning in me.
It is so necessary to gaze upon you, O Lord When I’m here in your presence. Your gaze heals me and comforts me,
Your healing power transforms me and renew me.
To contemplate your face, Beloved, is all I seek.
You are the gaze of love. Your peace I yearn and desire. Your friendship, is all I want and all I need in order to live in this exile.
O Beloved, My heart cannot contain your beauty when You gaze at me With so much tenderness and infinite love. I want to live for these precious moments of intimacy with You.
You embrace me with so much delicacy, and I feel so loved. O Lord, I feel so calm and whole in your presence. You hold my hand and I feel your guidance and affirmation, Knowing that You are constantly in me and with me.
You bless me Lord. I need you Lord, like oxygen to my lungs. Like sight to my eyes. Like food to sustain my body. Like light to illuminate my mind and soul.
You are my all, Beloved. May I live in You all the days of my life and forever.
This is a little adaptation of the beautiful song by Sophie B. Hawkins. Every time I listen to it, it makes me think of My Beloved….Jesus I love you!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do…
You are mine, art by Yong-Sung Kim
It felt like spring time on this February morning In a courtyard birds were singing Your praise I’m still recalling things You said to make me feel alright I carried them with me today Now
As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That You will hold me dear Though I’m far away I’ll whisper your Name into the sky And I will wake up happy
I wonder why I feel so high Though I am not above the sorrow Heavy hearted Till You call my name And it sounds like church bells Or the whistle of a train On a summer evening I’ll run to meet You Barefoot, barely breathing
As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That You will hold me dear Though I’m far away I’ll whisper Your name into the sky And I will wake up happy
Oh, Beloved As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That You will hold me dear Though I’m far away I’ll whisper Your name into the sky And I will wake up happy
It’s not too near for me Like a flower I need the rain Though it’s not clear to me Every season has it’s change And I will see You When the sun comes out again
As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That You will hold me dear Though I’m far away I’ll whisper Your name into the sky And I will wake up happy
I wonder why
when the sun comes out again when the sun comes out again…
‘Jesus comforting a girl in loving embrace’, Art by Unknown Author
Easing myself into the peace I slip over the brink of sleep, into your arms.
I lie there my head against your breast one hand at your heart’s steady beat the other crooked behind me and all is quietude and still repose.
Your arms enfold me. They make a rampart holding all my fears at bay.
Your breathing is the universe you recreate each second through your love. You are that mighty Word resounding to make creation dance and sing in procreation.
Wedded for the first time in my life, blessed, consecrated, vowed and ringed, I now belong with you, love’s circlet mutual and pledged with sacramental grace.
Cherished and safe, cradled and defended by the stronghold of your promise I hold out in my trusting hand to you all my love throughout eternity.
Lovers always say “for ever”… and then betray each other. But we have made our deathless troth that enemies cannot destroy nor many waters quench nor catastrophic earthquake turn to rubble.
Our “for ever” opens up eternity in us where I lie cradled in your quiet arms your steadfast heartbeat here beneath my hand so that I believe, and trust, and render up my all into your care whose dower is to me the universe.
~ By Barbara Dent, O.C.D.S. ‘The Marriage of All and Nothing’
Come and visit me in my garden, the flowers are wild and unkempt, but they like to grow freely in your space, breathing from your air and soaked in your warm rays.
Come and stay my Beloved, the birds greet you with reverence, and I am still, sinking everything in.
My garden is your abode. It’s our meeting place…Oh how much I thank you my Jesus! I thank you for this space filled with the joy of you. This is my place of retreat, where I come to learn all your mysteries and rejoice in your unfailing love.
My Rabonni, your eyes seek me and I encounter yours in an unending song of praise! How do you love me so much? How do you seek me so much? I am breathless…my heartbeat stop at your majesty. I close my eyes, and I lay in your arms, and my garden transforms into an eternal bliss of me in you and you in me.
