Love and its varieties are riding herd in my head and heart this morning...specifically love and how to do it. I'm coming up empty...or overstuffed...I got words, meanings, analyzes, but I got no meaning.
The thought floated in my head yesterday that I do not know love...how to experience God-love. I know and appreciate familial or boy-girl or pet love, but I have never experienced love as truly spiritual souls speak of love.
I almost regret that the word love has become interchangeable today when speaking of people, pets, clothes and cars, to mention a few. Though I have to wonder if that isn't for our benefit...it makes us dig ever deeper to find just what the meaning of spiritual love is to us personally...the love of our Father and all his works.
My best has been to find words that describe what does not mean spiritual love...I'm thinking God love. Not our love of God, which is dicey at best, and not God's love for us which is unfathomable...it is God, Period.
Maybe that's the hidden catch...maybe we are not meant to mentally get love... otherwise, we'd stay right there expounding on it, or wrap it up and put it on a shelf for safekeeping.
We can take heart in Fr Richard's words, Every day is a lesson in love, learning how not to bind up ourselves and our neighbors, but in fact, to free ourselves and others.
We can accept that learning how is not a one-shot deal...it is our life's gift. We get to go over and over and over again the lessons that turn us to God daily even as we resist.
Thank you.
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