"Experience shows that to pray well and to be brought to the state of passive prayer in which God and the soul communicate in depth, the heart must be pierced—pierced, that is, by the love of God, wounded by thirst for the Beloved. Only through such a wound can prayer truly descend into the heart and lodge there. God must touch us at such a deep level of our being that we cannot do without him any more. Without that wound of love, mental prayer will ultimately be no more than a mental exercise or pious spiritual practice; it will never be intimate communion with the one whose own Heart was pierced with love for us." page 72
Just sit with that for a moment.
Our hearts must be pierced with love for the One that first loved us.
An cry of love.
A shout for joy.
"And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the horn." 2 Samuel 6:14-15
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