How many have experienced the love Rumi is speaking about? Has the fire of the pain of your life brought you to the love that has ushered you into its inner chambers?
I have.
It took 67 years to get here… following breadcrumbs along a twisted and at times viciously rocky path. This Love is poignantly peaceful and achingly beautiful and as I breath deep, in and out of my heart space, I can barely stand it at times…. the love is so intense.
Can I stay here?
No.. I can’t. I’m not quite ready yet.
I’ve been arriving here for years… and each time it’s 100% Grace that gently invites me in and I utterly float in through the door and suddenly I am totally untangled and un-knotted and completely free - floating in an exquisite spaciousness where intellect cannot live.
You see, I lived for awhile in ‘white picket fence’ complacency and then I ran away to save myself driven by an inner raging fire that would eventually burn me to a crisp.
Have I risk everything up to now? Have I taken extreme chances? Have I chased the impossible dreams? Have I been driven by Love to the edge of the cliff and with no choice but to jump? Yes, yes, yes and yes.
Now when I fall down battered and beaten by my mental gyrations - over and over again - I run to the door and call loudly to Love! “Please open the door!” “Please help me… I must come in!”
Sweet reprieve as Love sweeps me in and I fall down in its brilliant warm light and weep.
Inside the House. Oh.. inside the House… I cannot stay
Inside the House… oh! Inside the House… there will come a day
When finally my small little entangled, knotted and vastly ‘intellectual self’ will be too ragged to play all the ‘learning games’
When the lessons will be done
When I will finally come in and joyously sink down, melting… surrendered… enveloped
Becoming one with the One…
Love
I cannot tell you to take risks, chances, to chase your dreams or to run away from ‘white picket fences,’ I can only suggest that if Love calls you with its burning red passion aching hard within your chest.. go.
© Christina James Jan 1st, 2026
(Happy New Year!)
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