This is taken from my journal, written on Holy Thursday while in the crypt of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., 8:30pm, April 5th, 2012:
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"How intimate do you desire to be with us, Lord? What a scandal I feel it to be. Perhaps for some - or for many - they desire you to be no more than friend; perhaps even a distant friend. They call you when they feel they need you, or maybe they call just to say hello. But when the day is done, they go home, and let you go to your home - and you remain for them a mere friend.
Yet I find it doubtful that when they die, a mere friendship with you would satisfy them. At least I can't imagine being satisfied with only a friendship. Even the best of all friendships would not be enough; even a mere friendship would not be a problem, a scandal, for many, or most.
Yet I feel your desire for greater intimacy, Lord. Certainly you are a friend, Lord - but more than that; much more. You desire to be a Spouse, and what is more: you desire to consummate this desire in the most intimate union with us. It is a desire that, if I am honest with myself, bares the only satisfaction my soul longs for."
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~Brian Hanson
