Daily Meditation: Leap Into Love

Daily Meditation: Leap Into Love

We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life.

Today's post features a poem by Christian mystic, Mechthild of Magdeburg, included in The Little Book of Prayers. Mechthild's powerful poem entreats the divine powers to teach her the ways of spiritual ecstasy.

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I cannot dance, O Lord,

Unless You lead me.

If You wish me to leap joyfully,

Let me see You dance and sing --

Then I will leap into Love --

And from Love into Knowledge,

And from Knowledge into the Harvest,

That sweetest Fruit beyond human sense.

There I will stay with You, whirling.

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