Have you ever come to a time in your life when you cannot endure explanations of God, but yearn instead for insights that lead you into greater love? It is as though you have had enough of the maps of the how, and want to experience the journey first hand; a time when mere words are not enough, no longer feed, have found their limitation.
An ancient legend of an old woman describes how she is asked about her love for God. "Yes, yes, I love him very much," she replies. "And do you hate the devil?" she is asked. "I love God so much I don't have any energy left to hate the devil."
The story is good. If we put our energies in loving, we won’t have time to hate. We will be too busy seeking the experience to worry about how someone else is living out her life. But that is not easy in our day. There are so many baskets begging us to contribute something, our heart for this cause, our mind for this doctrine, our energy for this group. Though such causes are good, they can get us so caught up in the tangible that we forget we started out as seekers of the Divine.
It all started with a desire for the Divine; that we are where we are because we have come to love God deeply. We need to take the time to savor where we are in our journey, to stop and enjoy the moment of truth, the place our energies have brought us, the light we share.
It is time to let the Divine warm our hearts and seep into our soul. It is time to enjoy the presence we have worked so hard to identify within our very selves. It is time to put down the map, and relish being. It is time to let go of words, and live the experience.
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