Longing for the Infinite, Finding the Finite

 “The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.”
                                  — Meister Eckhart

Without settling for any tepid,
half-hearted and stifling control,
resisting the lure of the superficial
and the dull momentum of apathy,
the human soul inherently longs
for the love of its perfect Source
and for the Beauty that remains
after all the shadows have passed.

This gracious, gutsy longing for God
opens out into a full immersion
into the labyrinth of human life,
for the Infinite involves the finite
as a mother pregnant with hope.
No ethereal ache or fantasy desire,
the heart is restless for the Sacred
Heart for which it was utterly made.

Without clutching or clinging to
the finite, the yearning soul
abandons otherworldly escapes
for an unrestricted personal plunge
into the woven intimacies of living
in this near side of all infinities;
submergence in all finitudes is
a concealed soul-stretch for God.

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Note: first published in Spirit Fire Review