23rd December, 2024
Kerrie Hide, Love's Oneing: A Book About Contemplation (Austin Macauley Publishers, 2022), 225.
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Our last long quotation before Christmas Day is a meditation inviting us to spend time reposing with Jesus. You might like to return to it on Christmas Day.
'After finding a place of solitude and coming to stillness, I invite you to enter into the depths of your heart and recline with Jesus. Awaken the senses of your heart and feel yourself, reclining, more and more as you lean back into the kolpon, heart-womb of the one you love. Sense the intensely fertile silence of this kolpon-heart-womb receiving you. Repose in the silence.
As you feel the tranquillity of repose, sense into the magnetic yearning of the heart of Jesus drawing you deeper into his heart. Feel yourself yielding, seeping beyond your bounded self, back and down and in, towards your centre, where your heart infuses into the heart of Jesus, until you become absorbed in Jesus.
Softly, abide in the oneing, becoming more and more inside each other, as your consciousness and the consciousness of Jesus one. Feel the love energy of this sacred heart ground as your inside coincides with his inside and his heart becomes the heart of your heart. As you gently abide, one in each other, feel all descriptions of yourself melt and evaporate. You are one in the burning radiance of the one heart.
Gently, continue to release into this oneing love energy. Sense your heart and the heart of Jesus oneing in this one heart awareness. Feel yourself coinciding in the intimacy of the divine kolpon, in the Silence speaking the Word, as the Word infusing your consciousness ones. Dissolve into the silent love of Love’s Trinity, into the communion of all hearts one in the Trinity. Flow with the inflow-outflow of agape.
Remain loving in this intimacy of Silence and Word oneing with this agape for as long as you feel drawn.'
Pages 225-226.