14th December, 2024
Kerrie Hide, Love’s Oneing: A Book About Contemplation (London: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, 2022), 27.
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'Julian [of Norwich] says so simply “prayer ones the soul to God.” She invites you to beseek, to come to prayer, yearning to be oned into the sight and the beholding of your Beloved, enjoying with loving wonder and such great sweetness and delight that you can only pray as Love stirs you at this time. Find a quite place then, where the silence that is the ground of your heart can flow through you effortlessly. Settle, still and become sensitive to the music of silence, feeling yourself open into a loving beholding. Become attentive to this soft, luminous seeing with the eye of your heart, the gentle beholding of beholding.
As silence ripples, calms and sooths your body, your mind, your soul, listen to Love’s words whispered in the depths of your heart, “I am the ground.” Arising from the ground of Silence, resounding with primordial creativity, Love’s silent words, “I am the ground,” resound with sonic presence, like a mantra, ringing in the universe.
“It is my desire,” the Beloved murmurs, softly, gently, invitingly; “that you turn into me, into the depths of my heart, enjoying.” Tenderly turn within into the ground of silence, knitting and oneing every particle of your being into the point of pure presence into the ground of your heart, into the oneing of silence.
In the oneing, in the being and holding, in beholding, yield into a lingering, soft enfolding, closing and enclosing. Feel yourself one in this enfolding, closing and enclosing, oneing love. Enjoy soaking in the infusing oneness. Allow as much time as Love invites, to abide in the silence of this enfolding, closing, enclosing, oneing love.
Thanking is an inner knowing filled with wonder. As you feel the Beloved draw you to finish, give thanks for this loving presence, remaining centred in the ground of your heart enjoying the presence of Love in all things.
Pages 27-28.