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We Want Sin
SHE DESIRED ME SO I CAME CLOSE
She desired me so I came close.
No one can hear God unless She has
prepared a bed for
you.
A thousand souls hear Her call every second,
but most every one then looks into their life’s mirror and
says, “I am not worthy to leave this
sadness.”
When I first heard Her courting song, I too
looked at all I had done in my life
and said,
“How can I gaze into Her omnipresent eyes?”
I spoke those words with all
my heart,
But then She sang again, a song even sweeter,
and when I tried to shame myself once more from Her presence
God showed me Her compassion and spoke a divine truth,
“I made you, dear, and all I made is perfect.
Please come close, for I
desire
you.”
— Daniel Ladinsky, inspired by Teresa of Avila
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