If gravity binds us to the Earth, then Love binds us to God. That primal force is not so different from weight. Whereby the one who carries stones in his pocket is slowed down with extra burden, so too does our flesh, complete with all its pride avarice and lust, slows down the soul from rising to stasis in perfect stillness and peace in the divine order.
Does not fire reach for the sky? Does not stone roll down a mountain? A stone does not roll up a mountain unless it is bent against the order of gravity that pulls earth to earth. A force exerted against the divine order is required to roll stone uphill.
So too is the primal force of love, which moves a person who is not yet at rest. The force of love draws to itself in the way the earth binds earth with gravity, God binds man, made in his image, to himself with Love. All his creatures, mortal and material, intellect and irrational, are propelled through a changing universe to a place of natural stasis and balance whereby they find perfect peace.
Should you shake a jar of oil and water, they separate perfectly and move continuously until they reach perfect balance. Love moves in us this same way. We bend against it, not always going the way of the perfect path, fighting the primal force, in which we will never find peace, for love is the weight of our actions and cannot be balanced until it is drawn to itself in a place of rest.
Therefore, let your will be His will. Let your flame reach the heavens. Gain mastery over yourself that your flame does not bend unnaturally to the earth, whereby it will only find fuel to continue to burn. If you burn unnaturally forever, you will only consume yourself, all the oil of your lamp burnt up, until there is only darkness.
Yet the flame of love that rises and rises becomes light itself. Love begetting love, light from light. This is the natural order of things. You are light. Rise and shine.
The Lamp Stand 