As I come before you longing to be captivated by you completely, I stumble into your presence weak and frail, desperate for your unimaginable peace to fill my every cell, my every thought, and the depths of my spirit. I am a deep cavern, so intricate and precious, delicate and rare. You have created me to love you and to love others. From the beginning I have been running after you, calmly and with sweetness yet passionately and with rigor. My devotion to you is endless even amongst my departures. For leaving you I was only seeking to find you truer, with more sincerity and greater wisdom. In every turn I take, each step I make I discover your beauty, your law of grace and I am enamored by your illumination. How rich you are in virtue! How lovely you are to please me, an infant! Let me be rescued by your embrace, devoured by your gentleness, as I fall so elegantly into your bed of serenity. Take my tired arms and make them graceful. Take my failing feet and make them strong. Take my captured mind and make it free. In you I uncover my frustrations and hesitations. I realize how you made me irrevocably in love with you. You sustain me. My dreams have been burnt and nothing of them remains, but you have given me new dreams and in you I surrender every idea that I have ever had about myself. To you I give my severe longings. To you I lay my troubles and doubts. Run away with me! Escape with me into this mystery! Your unfathomable ways are the paths I will graze, leaving no flavor behind for I will taste every ounce of joy that you have to offer!
With all that to say, my sweet love, with words and in the softest, truest place in my heart, I give to you all of me forever. I am yours. Every choice that I make, every action I take, every thought and word, may it be for you, what you desire for me. And in turn, may I please you with my life. My life, my heart, my soul is an offering to you. I want it no other way.
The moment I start to take things into my own hands, may that be the same moment where your Spirit steps in and guides me in your Way.
I trust you with my body. I don’t know what you’re going to do with it, but I trust you. Take it, it’s yours.
