LOVE...ACTIONS OF MERCY AND JUSTICE

We have to find our inner authority through Christ in us; we have to find our purpose in our love of God and neighbor, and actions of mercy and justice. Otherwise, we’re not offering anything that the world doesn’t already have or can’t find in other places. —Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, 1/4/25 

There it is: ...we have to find our purpose in love. Period.

To my mind, this is the essence of our being here, i.e., to find our purpose in love. 

The blinding flash of the obvious for me was the realization that I needed to find out what the meaning of love is to me. No wonder I have been such a drag-foot in learning the deeper/higher meaning of love...I couldn't even say the word back in the day.

When I realized that it mattered not what love means to you, or to Gertrude or to Sam, bur what it deep-meant to me, my realization turned the corner. 

Trying to learn that, I have dug and dithered and dug for years...never realizing that I was doing it right. 

I know now...I have realized (God's gift)...that is how I was meant to learn about love, its meaning, its purpose, its core...by digging, pitching some parts, keeping others. That is how I finally came to the God of my own understanding with legs and feet...no longer five words without a deeper meaning.

My current understanding will grow, but when first I read them, actions of mercy and justice seemed to sing to me. They still hum.

I am on the right road, heading in the right direction...with love surrounding me, and I know what that means to me now. 

God is so good to me. To us.

Thank you.