Dear Human is a Verb Community,

I am reading The Cloud of Unknowing this week.

(God) wants you to lock your eyes on him and leave him alone to work in you. Your part is to protect the door and windows, keeping out intruders and flies. And if you’re willing to do that, just ask him, praying humbly, and he will help you immediately. (Ch 2, Bucher Translation)

I’ve been sitting with this invitation: lock your eyes on God and let the work of love be done in you. My part is the locking. God’s part is the loving. How much better would my world be if I simply held that division of labor? Guard the door and window of the heart. Stay present. And trust that the loving is already underway. It is easier said than done.

And yet, there is an invitation to surrender here that something deep in me recognizes and wants.

When I sat with that image long enough, I wanted to pray it with music. I worked with AI to develop “Let Love Lead Me,” trying to let the Cloud‘s invitation become something I could live into through music.

This week, I am aware of how much we need, as persons and as a society, for love to lead us. I hope this song encourages you the way it has encouraged me.

Peace,

Julene

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