{"id":1825,"date":"2011-12-02T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2011-12-02T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T16:14:13","slug":"desire-for-the-vision-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/desire-for-the-vision-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Desire for the Vision of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>his morning, the second reading from the Office of Readings struck me, so I thought I’d share it with you.<\/p>\n

It reminds me of the Dark Night of the Soul<\/a><\/em> of Saint John of the Cross, as well as many of the psalms of longing. It’s beautiful.<\/p>\n

From the Proslogion <\/em>by Saint Anselm<\/a>, bishop<\/h4>\n

Desire for the Vision of God<\/em><\/p>\n

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Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church<\/p><\/div>Insignificant man, escape from your everyday business for a short while, hide for a moment from your restless thoughts. Break off from your cares and troubles and be less concerned about your tasks and labors. Make a little time for God and rest a while in him.<\/p>\n

Enter into your mind\u2019s inner chamber. Shut out everything but God and whatever helps you to seek him; and when you have shut the door, look for him. Speak now to God and say with your whole heart: I seek your face; your face, Lord, I desire<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lord, my God, teach my heart where and how to seek you, where and how to find you. Lord, if you are not here where shall I look for you in your absence? Yet if you are everywhere, why do I not see you when you are present? But surely you dwell in \u201clight inaccessible.\u201d And where is light inaccessible? How shall I approach light inaccessible? Or who will lead me and bring me into it that I may see you there? And then, by what signs and under what forms shall I seek you? I have never seen you, Lord my God; I do not know your face.<\/p>\n

Lord most high, what shall this exile do, so far from you? What shall your servant do, tormented by love of you and cast so far from your face? He yearns to see you, and your face is too far from him. He desires to approach you, and your dwelling is unapproachable. he longs to find you, and does not know your dwelling place. He strives to look for you, and does not know your face.<\/p>\n

Lord, you are my God and you are my Lord, and I have never seen you. You have made me and remade me, and you have given me all the good things I possess and still I do not know you. I was made in order to see you, and I have not yet done that for which I was made.<\/p>\n

Lord, how long will it be? How long, Lord, will you forget us? How long will you turn your face away from us? When will you look upon us and hear us? When will you enlighten our eyes and show us your face? When will you give yourself back to us?<\/p>\n

Look upon us, Lord, hear us and enlighten us, show us your very self. Restore yourself to us that it may go well with us whose life is so evil without you. Take pity on our efforts and our striving toward you, for we have no strength apart form you.<\/p>\n

Teach me to seek you, and when I seek you show yourself to me, for I cannot seek you unless you teach me, nor can I find you unless you show yourself to me. Let me seek you in desiring you and desire you in seeking you, find you in loving you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, the second reading from the Office of Readings struck me, so I thought I’d share it with you. It reminds me of the Dark Night of the Soul of Saint John of the Cross, as well as many of the psalms of longing. It’s beautiful. From the Proslogion by Saint Anselm, bishop Desire for the Vision of God […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditations","category-pray","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-tr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85113,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/teach-me-to-seek-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":1825,"position":0},"title":"Teach Me to Seek You","author":"Thom","date":"21 April 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Insignificant man, escape from your everyday business for a short while, hide for a moment from your restless thoughts. 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