Out of the depth I cry to you, O LORD. Psalm 130:1
As we prepare for the Easter, help us to know you, meet you and celebrate you thru your son's work of dying on the cross and rising from the dead.
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Who in heaven but you. My body and my soul will decay but you will not. You are my anchor and my solid rock.It is important to learn to move from a 'first loneliness' to a 'second loneliness.'The first loneliness is a kind of emotional loneliness: needing friends, family, and home. But all those needs are more or less met, you learn there is second loneliness. God is call you to deep, personal intimacy, an intimacy that is wonderful and every demanding. God asks you to let go of many things that are emotionally, intellectually and affectively very sastifying. You must grow into the trust that this deeper loneliness is not be overcome, but lived. You must live it with trust, standing tall. You must go say, "Yes. I am lonely, but this particular loneliness sets me on the road to intimacy with God. It does not putt me away from God or my deepest self, but brings me closer to the source of love in the depths of my being."It is very important for us to dare to welcome the fullness of our second loneliness because it is relates to the oldest mystical traditions about the spiritual journey. The dark night of the soul is another expression of the second loneliness. In a way, this loneliness opens us to personally know the true God. When we touch the darkness we know that God cannot be owned or grasped within the affections of the human heart. God is greater than our hearts, greater than our minds, always alive, always longing for a response.O everlasting God, lead me from fear to love and from loneliness to communion with you.
As we prepare for the Easter, help us to know you, meet you and celebrate you thru your son's work of dying on the cross and rising from the dead.
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