Could You Embrace That?

Posted by Paul Reynolds on Jan 28, 2023 in Blog, Inspired Readings, Western Insight | Comments Off on Could You Embrace That?

I said to God, “Let me love you.”
And He replied, “Which part?”

“All of you, all of you,” I said.

”Dear,” God spoke,
“you are as a mouse wanting to impregnate a tiger who is not even in heat. It is a feat way beyond your courage and strength.

You would run from me
if I removed my
mask.”

I said to God again,

“Beloved I need to love you—every aspect, every pore.”
And this time God said,

“There is a hideous blemish on my body,
though it is such an infinitesimal part of my Being—
could you kiss that if it were revealed?”

“I will try, Lord, I will try.”

And then God said,
“That blemish is all the hatred and
cruelty in this
world.”

—St. Thomas Aquinas

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