Could You Embrace That?
Reading at Koloa 06/29/09
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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