Worship

6:31 AM 1/27/2008 UTC

What is it to worship God? Worship exists only in a moment when everything melts away, and I am left with my lover, when I am His and He is mine. Worship is not music, worship is not song, worship is love.
Love is a moment, and only that. It exists only in the present, for future love is nothing but hope, and past love a memory which is no more. In "On Memory and Reminiscence," Aristotle itterated this with these words, "there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past."
It seems curious that Aristotle later poses a question, "...what happens in the genesis of memory, [the question stated above arises:] when one remembers, is it this impressed affection that he remembers, or is it the objective thing from which this was derived? If the former, it would follow that we remember nothing which is absent; if the latter, how is it possible that, though perceiving directly only the impression, we remember that absent thing which we do not perceive?"
I will not pretend to have the answer to Aristotle's question, but it begs us to consider it regarding love. If love is a moment, and God is love and we are to exist in Him, a memory cannot be good enough. A memory, however changing or impressing it may be, will fade until we are left only with Aristotle's "absent thing which we do not perceive." If we read on, we find that Aristotle will bring us to realize that a memory is just like a picture: it is not actually the real thing, it is merely a likeness, and an object fully separate from the original moment.
We should live our lives in love with God. And what is love? Love is worship. We should live our lives in worship. For this purpose, a constant present of Presence is sought after in our souls with an undeniable imminence which burns our deepest passions to life. To live without touch is a tomb, to live without love is a crushing burden, to live without worship is only a representation of life.
It is the purpose of human life that worship is granted our God. It is in this that completeness exists, and only in this that the troubles of existence lack relevancy. The dependence of chemical, the inadequacy of our own bodies, the pain of our emotions, our hearts and our souls all made of wax, kissed by love's fire. It is truly a candle to burn by both ends, for the fire is fed by passion - not wax, and the love more real than life and more strong than death. Healing may be found there, but that is not why we go. Peace may reside there, but I must be there to fully know. I step though a door, found most anywhere, and lay before the throne. And my King, He touches me! The King, do you comprehend! The Power, the splendour, the Glory, it all - and he touches me! Moments, and I full to bursting! And it is my desire. It is my love.

-- Aristotle quotes from LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE (R) 4th Edition Ver. 5.0/ Memory and Reminiscence/ Aristotle/ translated by J. I. Beare