Visions from the Sea

"No one can serve two masters"  -  Jesus Christ

My body is sick but God is healing my soul.  As the soul goes higher and higher in the love of God, the pain increases and gets greater.  As the cruise ship goes out to sea, so my soul gets lost in eternity.  If one forgets about oneself, one finds oneself being immersed in an ocean of Divine Love.  When this happens, ones sins are lost in an ocean of forgetfulness.  They are lost in the depths of the sea.

God gives us a Trinity of experiences in the cadences of His love.  The secrets of the soul are laid bare by the purifying fire of God's unconquerable love.  The deeper one is swallowed up by the sea, the purer one is drawn away from the things of the world.  The earth grows dim by the sun's twilight.

Like one climbing a mountain or ascending a summit is the soul's quest for God.  Meditate on God's Word but don't stop there.  Go deeper and contemplate God and His Word.  In contemplation one begins to behold the majesty and beauty of the Lord.  Faith in God sees the unseen and ends in sweet union with God.  It is in the dark inward light that the soul enters through the gate of Jesus  into the very presence of God.  St. John the Cross calls this "the cloud of unknowing."

True mysticism is Trinitarian and incarnational.  It is never self-seeking.  It is the supreme vision of the Trinity where we experience true oneness with God.  It is in the incarnation where suffering and sacrifice lead us into the very throne room of Almighty God.  This is the secret place of the Living Incarnate Word that makes us truly human in a world that has forgotten its true nature.  This is the hidden chamber where God makes us divine by His Spirit.