Beloved

The spiritual life is a life in which

you gradually learn to listen to a voice

that says something else, that says,

"You are the beloved and on you
 my favor rests.

... I want you to hear that voice.

It is not a very loud voice

because it is an intimate voice.

It comes from a very deep place.

It is soft and gentle.

I want you to gradually hear that voice.

We both have to hear that voice

and to claim for ourselves that

that voice speaks the truth, our truth.

It tells us who we are.

That is where the spiritual life starts

- by claiming the voice 

that calls us the beloved.