Beloved?

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Makes me think of stanzas of the soul. One way to purification is through purgation as in Dark Night. The soul that finds its beloved hands over all its cares to the beloved. Jesus wants us to do that. He doesn’t want us worried, anxious, angry, fearful, rather He gives us His peace. I think when the house is still and secure, is when our mind is calm and clear and free of those negative emotions.

Here is what it feels like when a soul find its Beloved, according to St. John of the Cross:

STANZAS OF THE SOUL
Code: 
	1. One dark night,
	fired with love's urgent longings
	  -- ah, the sheer grace! -- 
	I went out unseen,
	my house being now all stilled.
	
	2. In darkness, and secure,
  	by the secret ladder, disguised,
	 -- ah, the sheer grace! -- 
	in darkness and concealment,
	my house being now all stilled.

	3. On that glad night,
  	in secret, for no one saw me,
	nor did I look at anything,
	with no other light or guide
	than the one that burned in my heart.

	4. This guided me
     	more surely than the light of noon
	to where he was awaiting me
	 -- him I knew so well -- 
	there in a place where no one appeared.

	5. O guiding night!
  	O night more lovely than the dawn!
	O night that has united
	the Lover with his beloved,
	transforming the beloved in her Lover.

	6. Upon my flowering breast
  	which I kept wholly for him alone,
	there he lay sleeping,
	and I caressing him
	there in a breeze from the fanning cedars.

	7. When the breeze blew from the turret,
  	as I parted his hair,
  	it wounded my neck
	with its gentle hand,
	suspending all my senses.

	8. I abandoned and forgot myself,
  	laying my face on my Beloved;
	all things ceased; I went out from myself,
	leaving my cares
	forgotten among the lilies.
 
I’ve wondered that about John. And I think John was a light burden to Jesus. He did not resist or question or throw drama at him. But he probably wasnt boring or luke warm. He genuinely wanted to just be close to Jesus. He was a good soul.

Praying for you in my heart,
Michael
 
Alright, Michael, enough with the “drama Queen” stuff, I’m still a girl. Your asking me to stop being a girl.😛

with love, Lady
 
I thought Peter was the one who threw drama at Him. 😃

Alan
 
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