"You stir us to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you" -St. Augustine
Take me to a place where I can watch the rain fall on the ocean and still be warm.
Take me to a place where waterfalls refract light and create prismatic rainbows too numerous to count.
Take me to a place, where the breath of God is the rolling fog that forms translucent, moving mountains over great bodies of water.
How I long to be in your presence.
Your presence is the atmosphere of heaven.
You create a fire with flames that warm, heal, and feed me.
You are the dearest treasure to my heart.
You are my morning cry.
You are the great joy of my day.
You are my night longing.
You have given me angels bread to eat.
You have sung me to sleep with the lullabies of heaven, with the melodic music of stringed instruments unheard of by human ears.
You have caused me to taste the divine and nothing on earth has satisfied me since.
You have shown me what true life means.
You are the definition of abundance.
You are more beautiful than the golden rays of the sun coming after a long night.
You are more breathtaking than billions of stars glowing in the constellations.
You are more precious than glinting diamonds.
You are the Creator of everything beautiful and good.
And I am in love with you.
Take me to that place where I long to abide.
To that alcove in your heart.
To that safe place where I can sit in the living room of your thoughts.
Before the fire of your pure compassion.
In the rocking chair of your arms.
Under the chromatic rainbow of your tears.
In the effervescent hot spring of your laughter.
In the galaxy of your eyes.
You are my true home.
And I am only at home in you.
Whom have I in heaven but you?
I desire you more than anything on earth.
My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak,
but God remains the strength of my heart;
he is mine forever.
-Psalm 73:25-26
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