God Makes the Rivers to Flow: An Anthology of the World's Sacred Poetry and Prose (Essential Easwaran Library Book 4)

by Eknath Easwaran

RABBI ELEAZAR AZIKRI Beloved of the Soul Beloved of the soul, source of compassion, Shape your servant to your will. Then your servant will run like a deer to bow before you. Your love will be sweeter than a honeycomb. Majestic, beautiful, light of the universe, My soul is lovesick for you; I implore you, God, heal her By revealing to her your pleasant radiance; Then she will be strengthened and healed And will have eternal joy. Timeless One, be compassionate And have mercy on the one you love, For this is my deepest desire: To see your magnificent splendor. This is what my heart longs for; Have mercy and do not conceal yourself. Reveal yourself, my Beloved, And spread the shelter of your peace over me; Light up the world with your glory; We will celebrate you in joy. Hurry, Beloved, the time has come, And grant us grace, as in days of old.