Creeping into God

“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breath forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God”

                                                                                                      Søren Kierkegaard

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for all our talking

and all our reading

all our philosophizing

and all our theologized

for all the debates and dialogs we have inside our heads

and have outside our heads

the reality is that the reality of God

must be experienced

if we do not have that moment

when, like the lover who realizes he or she is in love

when we “creep into God”

and find our place there

or perhaps creep into the place

inside ourselves where God dwells

and find the Sacred there

and like a dog seeking

warmth, affection, and acceptance from its master

burrow up against the presence

we will never get it

and all the thinking, reading and debating

will take us not into truth

but into untruth

and love will become judgement

and grace will become law

and the living Word will become dead words on a page

and faith will become dogma

purity of heart is to will one thing (Soren Kierkegaard)

to draw near to God

and to allow God to draw near to us

faith is the intimacy of lovers

if it is not that

it is not faith