Posted by PS on March 04, 2005 at 00:21:03:
In Reply to: Re: Your thoughts -- life to me posted by cav on March 03, 2005 at 21:25:31:
: I recently read a story about a medeival contemplative who was blessed with the ability to float into the air at will. It often happened while he was in deepest prayer, and he even used it to carry decorations to the highest points of his monastery. Nothing gave him more joy than
: floating into the air...but then his superiors told him that he should not do it anymore. After this he was devastated, but wanting to be obedient he gave it up, after which he entered a depression from which he never fully recovered. But in that depression he drew so much closer to God because he had learned not to seek God for the pleasure it gave him, nor to rely on external or sensory things to guage his relationship. He was sent into the night of sense and there learned to love God with no apparent effects. This is called the deepest union by the contemplatives.
: Keep praying, and releasing all desires apart from those for God alone. You are in good company. In the darkness of your senses your soul is slipping out to meet its true love in deepest intimacy. And in the end all things pass. Either you will recover some joy in this life or you will die and enter the purest joy where your senses will no longer need to be darkened. Either way there is nothing to do but wait and meet the needs of today.
: We are praying together.
That means a lot. Thanks for the wisdom. If this leads into deeper union, then it is welcome.