Gosh, these guys have such long names. I really liked this passage. Instead of reading over it once and deciding if I liked it, I kept reading each sentence over and over to help myself better understand what he was writing. He was very insightful, and I enjoyed this reading.
One of the phrases that I kept going over was "when solitude is combined with secret intercourse with the Beloved, the joy of that intercourse overwhelms the mind, so that it is no longer concerned with this world and what is in it." Intercourse means intimacy with God. He is saying that if we have this "secret" intimacy (it's only secret because in this instance you are in solitude) with Him, then it overwhelms us and we are so consumed by it that we forget about the world: possessions, school, work, problems, etc. Isn't that awesome? I don't know, something about that sounds so cool. This sounds like it could be so refreshing to your soul, to forget about everything around you to focus on that one important thing in your life. This makes me think about an experience I had each year I went on a missions trip to Mexicali. We were not allowed to bring any electronics, we slept on a cot/ cushion all week in a tent, we only got 1-2 showers the entire week (2 was if you were lucky, and believe me walking around in the dusty dirt all day and running around in the hot hot sun and sweating like mad, you wanted 2 so bad), and we took the week off of both school and work, yet the entire week we had wonderful chapels, quiet time with God, and working with others who encouraged you to go after God that week was awesome. It was the best week ever! There's so much to complain about yet at the end of each day I was more joyful than I had been in a long time. I forgot all about school, my favorite t.v. shows, work, my ipod, and I didn't care, that was the cool part.
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