The Embrace

God leaks out of everything, you know.

Sometimes it is from the small, 

Almost mundane 

Minutia of life.

The vibrant energy,

The vibrating joy

Is everywhere

If we pay attention.

Yet, sometimes that Presence

Does not leak.

It explodes, dazzles,

It knocks one down

With beauty

With fullness

With love.

It is a gripping embrace

From which one cannot escape.

Nor does one want to,

For it is gentle

And beautiful

And kind.

Tears flow,

Many tears

For it is here

One knows

That all life dwells

All love dwells.

The joyous fullness

Demands a response.

One cannot remain neutral

In this embrace.

Whatever it takes

That’s what one will give

To stay here.

For there is a price

A dear price.

One must come naked 

Into this embrace

With the Light

The Holy One.

The baggage of a life

Must be left

On the roadside.

Only then can one remain

In the ecstasy of love

In the Light.