O satisfy us in the morning with Your loving kindness, That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. (Psalms 90:14)
When a person wakes in the morning eyes opened and lets the sun of Mercy shine through the window of faith, this light finds its way through all the interior places of one self, all these spaces become totally satiated. Then, there is no human language that can describe this universal transformation: it is as through the art of magic that wind has taken all away: the divine anger, guilt and dust, death and fear, the time limits, smoke and shadow. All of these have gone, and life and earth have become frenetically committed to a general dance that is about joy and delight.
The storm has passed, clouds have gone and the sun shines once more. Once we have invoked ardently the piety of the Lord, and we feel sure of it, we can deeply inhale, look forward as if the cycle from dust to dust had expired, leaving behind the knowledge that it no longer weighs significantly on us and that an age of prosperity is about to dawn.
Once more we will say it, the things of God are not to be intellectually understood but to be lived, and while we are living them, we begin to understand. The secret is to be satiated. A verb that is eminently vital, referring almost to a vegetative property. God is a feast; to be “eaten” (experimented) and then one is satiated. God is alive; to be “drank”, and then comes the giddiness in which all things become disproportionate, and in a miraculous transformation out of the transient comes the eternal and from sadness joy, from mourning dance.
God creates these wonders, not the God of vengeance, who “died” on the Mount of Beautitudes, but the God of Mercy, the true God, He who Jesus revealed to us.
After “drinking” this wine the days and the years will unfold before our eyes full of joy and hope.
From the book “Psalms for Life” from Father Ignacio Larrañaga.
