Some of you have shared with me that you cannot
understand why your prayers are not being answered. You are meditating,
surrendering, processing, inquiring, and crying out, but you are not hearing any
response. The only thing you feel is an unrequited longing in your hearts, a burning
in your bodies, and a broken-openness that has colored your world.
And then in the next moment, when all hope has vanished
into an unbearable hopelessness, a firestorm of grace arrives: you see so
clearly that this longing, this burning, and this broken-openness is the
return message. Love has not abandoned you, but is pouring through the cracks
in your armor; re-wiring your body, re-calibrating the cells of your heart, and
laying new pathways through your nervous system. It is by way of your burning
that you are able to be crafted as a golden, transparent vessel through which love
may move in this world.
