One of my favorite phrases is “Desiderio Domini”. It is a latin phrase meaning I long to be with my savior. The story goes, one day as a young disciple of the apostle Peter and Peter himself were on a walk a rooster crowed in the background. Peter immediately sank to his knees and began to weep. Peter wept often and typically the boy held his tongue, however this time he walked over to Peter and asked, “Peter, why do you cry so often?” Peter, with his face covered in tears, looked up at the boy and replied, “Desiderio Domini.”
The pain that Peter expresses in this story can only be expressed with sehnsucht. Peter feels a deep, intense and painful longing to be with Christ, though he knows it cannot be fulfilled by this world.
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