Jesus, let my heart feel the flameof the fire of your ardor
for the whole world,
for everyone.
You love every single human person,
without exception,
especially those
who are the most lonely,
who are the most lonely,
the most troubled and confused,
the most burdened with affliction.
You love those vast multitudes who do not know you,
but whose hearts have been made for you.
And you lead them in many secret ways
to the moment that lets them find you.
And you love especially
those who have known you,
but have fled far from you.
You search for them,
you call out to them,
and with all your Divine ingenuity
you find unseen chambers deep within their hearts
that may yet echo with your whispering.
You rouse their most buried, dormant, hidden hopes,
forgotten hopes or hopes unknown
that may yet awaken to their own hunger.
And I know this hunger.
It burns great holes in me.
And you lead them in many secret ways
to the moment that lets them find you.
And you love especially
those who have known you,
but have fled far from you.
You search for them,
you call out to them,
and with all your Divine ingenuity
you find unseen chambers deep within their hearts
that may yet echo with your whispering.
You rouse their most buried, dormant, hidden hopes,
forgotten hopes or hopes unknown
that may yet awaken to their own hunger.
And I know this hunger.
It burns great holes in me.
