By love may He be gotten and holden, by thought never. -- The Cloud of Unknowing
My first thought this morning (after Coffee!), was that Nearer My God to Thee isn't just a hymn...the older I get, the nearer I know my need for the nearness of God to me.
I have to laugh at my memories of me making mock of my grandpa who became a holy roller in his old age...being as how in my childhood he was known as a mean, mean man who had no truck with church. Actually, in my heart, I feel a certain empathy for him in his spiritual need which he could not articulate within himself...or to my mind which he could not realize as already his own.
Ah, maybe that's misplaced empathy...maybe it is me myself who cannot fully articulate, appreciate, recognize, realize within me my spiritual need which is already my own. Likely that's why the above quote from The Cloud speaks to me.
Then, reading today's Easwaran, I am stopped by his words: We do not live in what we think; we live in what we love. And, Loving the Lord means loving the innermost Self in all those around us.
It is my less-than-wonderful thoughts of others that hold me hostage to my self...and feeling the need for the nearness of God to me. It isn't "the older I get" that brings the change, it is the deeper I get within me...hey, it may be that old age gets a bad rap because every less-than that happens after age 60, we blame on age. Resist not and find the gold!
God gets such a kick out of me...you, too!
Thank you.
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