Everlasting Love

Sit. Hands on the chest. Eyes closed.

Read the verse, very slowly. I have loved you with an everlasting love.

Everlasting. The love is not new. It is not contingent on your performance. It is not a reward for getting it right. It is older than your doubt, older than your failure, older than the morning.

I have drawn you. Not pushed. Not demanded. Drawn. The way the sun draws a flower. The way the tide draws the shore. Slowly. Gently. Without force.

You are not being chased. You are being drawn. There is a difference. The chase makes you run. The drawing lets you be still, and come toward.

Let the breath be the drawing. In: the love that is everlasting. Out: the resistance, let it go.

Stay a few more minutes. The drawing is not finished. The love is not finished. They are still in motion.