When a mother first sees her newborn there is such a palatable feeling of love- a shared experience with a smaller, weaker one that has turned a mother’s heart into a caring longing to return love to someone else. By knowing human love, one is led to knowing divine love. It is a continuation of the love first given by Someone greater, mightier than ourselves.
It is like that with God and man- a shared experience of creation- created by Love for love- love of man, love of the individual man. God is love (1Jn4:7) and man is loved by God. Man and God want that initial relationship to grow and love more, a continuous seeking love; to grow longer than nine month gestation, longer than a living life, for all eternity, from the beginning of time. “He chose us in him, before the foundation of the world.”(1Jn4:8)
God is love; it is His essence. His love is without boundaries, without restrictions; He turns no one away. As a loving Father, He offers us guidance through the words of His Son. His heart is open to our friendship, our love. He loves our cries of praise as we call him, Abba. He gives us freedom of choice- to choose Him or the fleeting pleasures of the world.
God is love; it is His essence. His love is without boundaries, without restrictions; He turns no one away. As a loving Father, He offers us guidance through the words of His Son. His heart is open to our friendship, our love. He loves our cries of praise as we call him, Abba. He gives us freedom of choice- to choose Him or the fleeting pleasures of the world.
He gives us freedom to love anyone in need, as an expression of our love for Him. He who is the creator of all, gives us our work- to continue creation- to care for the things of the earth and its contents-to be a continuing of His creation. He is telling us to bring all people into His kingdom of love-to be love ourselves.
Love practiced, as mother to child; husband to wife; family to friends; friends to community; community to world. Love expressed, from Jew to Samaritan; from black to white; from Chinese to Native; from Anglo-Saxon to Hispanic.
He wants us reaching out, growing, becoming-loved and lover; going from human to divine; embracing the familiar to the distant; from the seen to the unseen. He desires us to move- becoming fully human-knowing Him, loving, choosing.
Love practiced, as mother to child; husband to wife; family to friends; friends to community; community to world. Love expressed, from Jew to Samaritan; from black to white; from Chinese to Native; from Anglo-Saxon to Hispanic.
He wants us reaching out, growing, becoming-loved and lover; going from human to divine; embracing the familiar to the distant; from the seen to the unseen. He desires us to move- becoming fully human-knowing Him, loving, choosing.
It is an act of will, a determination, a giving of self for another. It is acquired by time and grace, prayer and patience, forgiving and forgiven, trust and faith to become love. It is becoming as one with Him, who loved us and created us- in communion with Love.
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