A Meditation in the Middle of the Night

Man says:

            Lord, Who am I?

            I wish to be!

            God says:

                        I alone am!

Man says:

            I hope!

            I try!

            God says:

                        In Me your hopes and efforts come to nothing.

Man says:

            I live,

            I shall die,

            perhaps to be reborn.

            God says:

                        In Me there is no birth nor death.

Man says:

            Lord, have mercy!

            God says:

                        My Mercy is:

                        that you have been made capable

                                    of Nothingness

in Me.

R. Hodges

13 March 2013 CE

Author’s note:

            It is not necessary to believe in God:

            Neither prime existent nor personal divinity,

            Neither immanent nor transcendent,

            Neither creator nor cosmos—

            God is an event in the soul.

            An annihilation.