Ruah Bull - Spiritual Director

 Salvation is not flight from the wrath of God; it is accepting  and reciprocating the love of God. Salvation is not separation. It is the bringing of union with all that is or ever will be.

 When he admits you to his presence Ask from him nothing other than himself. When he has chosen you for a friend You have seen all there is to see. There's no duality in the world of love: What's all this talk  of 'you' and 'me'? How can you fill a cup that's already full?

 This is no time for a child to be born, With the earth betrayed by war & hate And a comet slashing the sky to warn That time runs out & the sun burns late. That was no time for a child to be born, In a land in the crushing grip of Rome; Honour & truth were trampled by scorn- Yet here did the Saviour make his home, When is the time for love to be born? The inn is full on the planet earth, And by a comet the sky is torn- Yet love still takes the risk of birth.

 This is how I would die: Into the Love I have for you as pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

  I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea, Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes; I would empty my soul of the  dreams that have gathered  in me, I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul as it leads

 Effortlessly love flows from God into man Like a bird who rivers the air Without moving her wings. Thus we move in the divine world. One in body and soul Though outwardly different in form. As the source strikes the note, Humanity sings. The holy spirit is the harpist, And all strings Touched in love Must sound.

Even if I don't see it again - nor ever feel it  I know it is - and that if once it hailed me  it ever does- And so it is myself I want to turn in that direction not as towards a place, but it was a tilting  within myself,    as one turns a mirror to flash the light to where it isn't - I was blinded like that - and swam in what shone at me    only able to endure  it by being no one and so specifically myself I thought I'd die from being loved like that.