Daniel Ladinsky: If you want

St. John of the Cross (F. de Zurbaran)

Now that a Silent Night has separated us from the Christmas frenzy, perhaps it's time to listen once again for the still small voice within.

That is, if you want…

According to mystics Daniel Ladinsky and St. John of the Cross, it might sound something like this:   

If you want, the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy, and say, 'I need shelter for the night,

please take me inside your heart, my time is so close.'

Then, under the roof of your soul, you will witness the sublime intimacy, the divine, the Christ taking birth forever, as she grasps your hand for help, for each of us is the midwife of God, each of us…

Both Ladinsky and John of the Cross are quite familiar with listening for this voice.  Wikipedia explains that "over a twenty-year period," Ladinsky "spent extensive time in a spiritual community in western India…"  St. John of the Cross is a Doctor of the Church whose writings are considered to be "the summit of mystical Spanish literature."  

Resources

http://books.google.com/books?id=fpcvv5pGKWMC&pg=PA299&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ladinsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_the_Cross