Searching for a superior love.
Soul Snack 120/10 ... The Canopy of the Soul
Surely the search for a superior love is the compass to life. It is a quest for a love that never requires re-visiting nor repair. It is the seeking of a love without pretense or any self-flagellating effort.
The thirst through life is the thirst for love. For it is in love itself that all our thirsts are filled. Safety, companionship, intimacy, forgiveness, protection, refuge, guidance, meaning, security and inner harmony are all held within love.
Mercy, justice, correction, repair and faith are also received from a superior love. Within it is found refreshment for today, hope for tomorrow and release from yesterday.
A superior love strengthens, soothes, blesses, permits and restrains. It listens, indulges and never screams. It is always gentle, trustworthy and unrelenting. It does not withhold, resent or harbor.
Surely the search for this love is about the salve of the soul, a soothing anointing for life's wounds.
In the thirsts of the soul, in its accumulated bundles of emotional entrapments and expressions, the soul reaches for what is above. The worn soul knows that there are no answers within. This is the thirst of the soul.
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, O God. (Ps 42:1)
The call of the soul is the call to Heaven.
The cries of the soul are for the graces of Heaven.
The canopy of the soul is the help of Heaven.