The Law of the Passion

Day Twenty-Four is an OUT day. Yesterday she came in and learned that everything level has two sides. Today she goes out, and what she carries out is passion in its old sense: to suffer with, to be moved on behalf of another.

The Adventure CEO becomes compassionate, and how she executes it is to ease. That is the whole test of the day — if it is not easing, it is not compassionate. A woman may feel a great deal and ease nothing; that is sentiment, not passion. And what she has to work with is an offering: something already in her hand, whether it came from someone else, from her own labour, or from God. She did not invent it. She was given it, and she may hand it on.

The Architect becomes caring — the deeper shoe. She does not only feel with, she takes charge of. And she no longer only eases; she entreats. One who cares will entreat another, going and speaking for the person who cannot speak for herself yet. Easing is the hand; entreating is the voice. And what she is, in this place, is the offer. Not the offering in her hand — the offer itself, the thing on the table. Jesus was both the offer and the offering, and a woman learns the difference the day she stops presenting a product and realises she is what is being received.

In the Sovereign she becomes charitable — caritas, love as a way of being rather than a gesture. What she does is empathize: she enters in and reads from inside, and the business itself eases, entreats and empathizes without her standing in every room. And what she increases are offerings, plural. This is where the day adds upon Day Twenty-Two: the outlay laid down as patronage returns, in the Fibonacci sum of the twenty-fourth day, as offerings — many, in many hands, from many directions.