It is our desire, our willingness, our spiritual mindset that begins our journey toward still more spiritual growth.
And then...and then...after years of pondering and preaching, we slowly begin to detach from our book learning, our original ideas, our striving and seeking. Our self-determined objectives start to fall away. In effect, they crash and burn...and even that minus our will.
We learn to laugh at our self-determined objectives which were all about us basking in the sunlight of love being showered upon us...or, short form, get spiritual, get love. Then comes the blinding flash of the obvious: We cannot get love, we can only give love.
The original message that God is love changes not, it is merely repurposed.
Love itself takes on a new and deeper meaning...holy, in a word. God and love...invisible, unprovable to the doubting mind...ah, but we realize It for real when It permeates our being. And we start loving our unfriends just as we love our friends. We know we are on the right track when they become interchangeable.
Then it is that we know fear for we hear our self asking, Just how holy do I want to be? Ah, then God laughs, and we relax...we're not there yet.
Love itself takes on a new and deeper meaning...holy, in a word. God and love...invisible, unprovable to the doubting mind...ah, but we realize It for real when It permeates our being. And we start loving our unfriends just as we love our friends. We know we are on the right track when they become interchangeable.
Then it is that we know fear for we hear our self asking, Just how holy do I want to be? Ah, then God laughs, and we relax...we're not there yet.
Thank you.
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