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A Taste of Love Divine

Bidden by love to enter Surrender: Knowing, certainty, piety; Release all claim to my frame: Abandon secure assertions, I open my soul to love Divine – Welcome the warmth that can only be God. ( For He is a consuming fire) ‘That He loves me,’ is something I know – I can hold it, define it, manage it, contain it, As if it were some tame, sentimental ornament to adorn my life. He speaks to my soul and tells me, “My love is beyond knowing… It is only to be felt in the depths, It cannot be known or it would cease to be holy other. I invite you to a new kind of knowing, As the beloved disciple spoke of it: ‘We have come to know and rely on the love of God.’ You see, there is no real knowing of my love Without total reliance on it.” And my heart is turned: I had it all wrong. No, I cannot hold, define, manage, or contain the love of God, Any more than the blazing sun can be gift-wrapped and held in my pocket. For He is a consuming fire.