OUR PRIME DIRECTIVE...LOVE, JUST LOVE

I have taken to speaking a lot about love...I feel that I know naught about love. But the words flow...almost against my will. I accept that they are from the Father within for I say them without thought or planning or a currying of favor. I just listen as they flow and follow them, maybe with the hope that they will come to live within me/without me? Thank you.

I wrote the above in my journal earlier this morning. Then, after my quiet time, I read Rohr. He quoted Brian McLaren, from his book The Great Spiritual Migration, about love: Of the many radical things said and done by Jesus, his unflinching emphasis on love was the most radical of all. Love was the greatest commandment . . . his prime directive—love for God, for self, for neighbor, for stranger, for alien, for outsider, for outcast, and even for enemy, as he himself modeled. 

I must admit that my first thought about love this morning was to wonder if I was being a phony...dropping the word love as if I knew its wonder-working power when I know nothing. I live its wonder-working power, but I don't have a clue how or why or if even...if I live it. Or, if I'm maybe like the new born who smiles in delight when breaking wind and everybody thinks s/he's showing love.

It is a great comfort to receive my little insights and then read someone who really does have a clue and what s/he has written validates what I had just flashed on. I take that as God does have my back, that's not just a hopeful saying...also, that I'm on the right track, moving in the right direction.

Thank you.