Longing

There is a longing, a longing for we know not what.  We try to say what we want, but do we really know? Because if we are being honest with ourselves, we would realize that all we want is God, His presence, His love. In our own ways we try to give language to our longings, to the yearning in our hearts. Sometimes we see it in a movie, a painting, a song, a dance, a dream. There are days when the craving for eternity is so powerful that it hurts, and all we do is ache. It is in this moment, when we are so lovesick that we cannot handle it that we must enter this pain, deepen it, widen it, explore what it means to long for God. Stay in this place, this place of desire  until there is nothing else but the pursuit of the face of God, the beauty of God.