“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is
not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it
keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not
delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”
1 Cor. 13:
4-8
In other words, love is as love does. Love is an action word. It concerns itself with the other, not with
the self. When we are a channel of the
love of God, we get out of the way and let God love through us. In so doing, we are changed utterly.
Loving someone may mean telling them no. It may mean speaking truth to power. It may be risky. But it is our great joy as well. It is love that keeps us going when we can’t
go on. In the end we realize it is God’s
love that is and has been doing that all along.
This kind of love is not shallow or sentimental. It is not romantic love as the teenager would
have it. It is not even erotic love.
This is the love that is stronger than death. This is the love that throws itself into the
fray with joy knowing that the battle is with powers and principalities, and
will cost us everything we are. Knowing
that in dying to self, we are born to joyful life.
Because he first loved me, I can dance in the rain, laughing
at illusory fears. Because he rescued
me, I can leave it all on the field when I pass through the veil, knowing that
there too, I will be available to love all in all.
Don’t believe me?
That’s all right. Take the
actions you would take if you did believe it.
Moment by moment, day by day, you will come to see that the hard work is
being done in you by the One who loves us all.
Bit by bit you will realize you have become happy, independent of all
the people, places or things around you.
You will know peace. You will
become the change you would like to see in the world. See you there!
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