Most of us are prepared to love. We are born to love, built in love, sometimes afraid of love and always willing to hear about love... But what about intimacy?
Intimacy is sacred, exhilarating, and very, very mysterious. Most of us know the word and, yet, few of us live the experience.
I came across Marianne Williamson's prayer on intimacy, read it this morning, and it touched my heart. I hope it touches yours as well...
Dear God,
Please show me how to love.
Teach me how to extend my light into the life of another.
Remove the barriers to my soul, the walls which stand in front of my heart,
My commitment to aloneness,
My resistances to joining.
I do not seek love, dear God, for I know it is all around me.
I seek instead the healing of my resistances to it,
the strengthening of my spirit;
That I might learn to love, to love well, to love fully, to love deeply.
When my true love calls, dear Lord,
Please keep my ears open.
Let me not shut down.
Let me not forsake him.
Let me always remember that his call to love him is my call to love You.
Thank You very much.
Amen.
- Marianne Williamson, Illuminata
