The Work of Love

It is all of a piece.
The work of love is subtle and varied.
The applications infinite in variety and flavor.

The Beloved is wanting of both All and nothing.
Learn how to give All and withhold nothing.
Peace within will ensue. Peace without will manifest.
All will be well when naught is withheld.
You have withheld the whole of the truth:
the truth of passionate love.
The rendering of this truth bears witness to its intensity,
its wholeness and holiness.
Withhold not, but lay the soul bare before the altar of love.

It behooves one not to withdraw and lick one’s doubts in private.
All will be revealed to the Beloved in time and through space.
This love endureth unto the ends of time and space and then beyond.

Confine it not into a set paradigm; it cannot fit such.
Instead, open wide and wonder, and let wonder preside over your every interaction.
Be full of praise and thanksgiving for this wondrous mystery of deepest soul loving.

The actions, thoughts and timing of the Lover are always precisely in synch with the Divine will.
There is no variance in its utter perfection.
All will unfold as it should and must upon your plane and within your lives.

Only foolhardiness says, “Withdraw, take stock of things”
The heart says, “More and evermore shall I love thee.
Unto the ends of the earth shall I chase thee!
Let me dance with thee in the moon and sunlight–
hide not from my deepest yearning for thee.
I so long for thee that I shall die without thy touch,
without thy gaze into mine eyes!
Follow where I lead,
for I lead thee into life itself
in my own arm’s embrace!
Oh, Beloved, come,
come and romp with me in the garden.
Come out and play with me in the open square!
This love I cannot hide and shall not place
under a basket in the dark! No!
Let us shine together–
Let us coalesce and be as One,
as it was foretold so long, long ago.
This love, this great fiery love
is truth, is life,
is the essence of our beings!”

Say all this to the Beloved and let life and love take their course
through deep faith, deep yearning, deep trust, and deep desire.
Call the Beloved to you on the wind!
Call the Beloved to you through the fiery atmospheres!
Hold the Beloved fast when He appears.
Entwine yourself entirely within His very being. For this is meant to be so. So be it.