After divorce would I open myself to love again?
Yesterday as I wrote ‘Confidence at Conscious Cafe’ I found myself thinking about divorce and whether I would have the confidence to open myself to Love again.
George Herbert’s poem ‘Love’ came to mind.
Love
Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.
A guest, I answered, worthy to be here:
Love said, You shall be he.
I the unkind, ungrateful? Ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee.
Love took my hand, and smiling did reply,
Who made the eyes but I?
Truth Lord, but I have marred them: let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.
And know you not, says Love, who bore the blame?
My dear, then I will serve.
You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:
So I did sit and eat.
Source: George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets (W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1978)
Love could be many things or people in the poem. I tend to think of God yet it could also be a person and when I think of a person Chai comes to mind.
She has opened me again to Love and with a ‘look to’ I embrace it.
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