Looking into His Loving Gaze

About this book

This book is a collection of reflections upon the mystery of prayer as the intimate dialogue of love between God and ourselves, a dialogue composed both of words and the sharing of looks, of silence and speak, of touch and embrace and dance and song and everlasting play. Succinct in their expression, the words of this book are nonetheless meant to be read and reflected upon in patience and wonder, that the light beyond language may shine through, and the Word at the origin of all words may make himself heard and felt in the recesses of the contemplating heart.From the text: There is nothing more intimate than the breathtaking union that blossoms between the human heart and God...this beautiful exchange of loving looks that allows hearts themselves to communicate and to be woven together in a single life of love. This is God's ultimate and all-encompassing desire: to enfold each one of his precious children within the tenderness of his cradling embrace, and, within this embrace, to make all of us one with each other in the single Mystery of his all-encompassing Love.Whenever I encounter such an amazing, awe-inspiring Love, I am profoundly healed in the innermost recesses of my being, and my life itself is bathed in a radiant and beautiful light. Yes, I find the true and deepest meaning of my life in being God's beloved, in letting my existence unfold in childlike playfulness and joy, as I welcome each moment as a gift of his Love and entrust myself totally to him in return. Indeed, all created things begin to reveal the radiant light of the Beloved's countenance, shining through the veil that has been stretched thin by God's own prodigal generosity.