Savoring Sacred Love
How to find the ineffable spiritual presence in your relationship.
Sacred love is a mystical experience. The body may tremble or experience a profound calm. It may create wild images or a simple, steady light in one’s being. There is always the sense of another presence, a holy presence, a sacred presence.
What Is Sacred Love?
So much of our love experience is focused on the subject of our love — the other person. He or she is so special, so unique, so different, and so perfect for us. We desire them, we commit to them, we are captivated by them. Sacred love brings in another element, however. It holds the relationship, rather than the person. While the lovers still hold each other in the tremendous esteem of other flavors of love, sacred love insists that there is something else — God. It points to the spiritual aspect, the joy, and the beauty of the relationship as a relationship.
Sacred love is the presence of a third being — the sacred spirit or God. The poets show us that sacred love is mystical; you can’t speak of it directly. It is known through innuendo, receptivity, and letting go of control so that we can be swept away… by love, by our lover, by God.
Sacred love comes in those moments when we let go. That’s when it takes us and carries us.
