CARRIED FORWARD BY LOVE

Not to get too high-flown about it, but I am wrestling with the words "Divine Love." Meaning, I have been unable to find another name for it...to downgrade it, actually. Whenever the words slip out, I feel like I'm putting on airs so I try to quash them. I know the words "Divine Love," and that is all I gut-bucket know about it...which, to my mind, pretty much translates into putting on airs. 

Hope is dawning, though, that this may be the difference between my rational mind at work and spiritual intervention...it's not like as if I'm choosing the words for I am not, I am resisting using the words. (And still they persist...just as with the woman speaking her truth to power. She was right, and so is Divine Love.)

That's my backstory, but the point I want to make is: Until we lose the in-our-head knowledge of love, from Mother love to romantic love to just-feel-good-all-over so it must be love...all of which we try to replicate and call Divine Love...we will never experience the love we seek. The indescribable love that we chase our self trying to describe which leads us to another brick wall. 

The indescribable love of God can only be experienced and then only in the moment. The memory of that exalted feeling is what we carry forward...or, in truth, is what carries us forward. 

It is not attainable, it is just there...it is not earned, awarded or rewarded...maybe gifted but that's just the reasoning mind's bow-tied wrap.

I ascribe to the definition of Fr Richard Rohr who wrote, "We know God by loving God. And I think that it is actually more important to know that we love God than to know that God loves us...." (Rohr's "Daily Meditation," November 10, 2020)

We know, of course, that to ascribe and to do are two entirely different things. Ah, but to ascribe is the starting point, and the starting point is more important than the ending. We can end anywhere by just stopping...quitting in a word...but there's only one true starting point. We know it when we continue deeper to a higher place.

We realize it in the moment we feel righted...and wonderingly wonder, Is this then Divine Love?

Thank you.