This Longing Love
This quote is attributed to the
unknown author of The Cloud of Unknowing
I have no idea
Whose heart these thoughts overflowed
Whose experience of God grew them
Whose pen wrote them
I am only so very grateful they did…
Silence is not God
Nor is speaking
Fasting is not God,
Nor is feasting
Solitude is not God,
Nor is company
He lies hidden between them
No work of yours can possibly discover Him
Save only your heart’s love
Reason cannot fully know Him
For He cannot be thought, possessed or discovered by the mind
But Loved He may be
and Chosen
By the artless, affectionate Longing of your heart
Choose Him then
and you will find
Your speech is silent
Your silence eloquent
Your fasting a feast
and so on…
Choose God
In love
For this blind trust
This keen shaft of Longing Love
Will never miss the mark of God
author unknown from The Cloud of Unknowing
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