Sunday, September 02, 2007

Sheer devotion

I lost myself. Forgot myself.
I lay my face against the Beloved’s face.
Everything fell away and I left myself behind,
Abandoning my cares
Among the lilies, forgotten.

-- St. John of the Cross

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