You Can't make love all dressed up

Richard Rohr titled his daily meditation today, “You can’t make love all dressed up”.

In the meditation he makes this quote:  “We long for the space where there is nothing to prove and nothing to protect; where I am who I am, in the mind and heart of God, and that is more than enough.”

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O Sacred One

we have those funny dreams

where we preach naked

or show up at school

or work

or someplace where we are extremely vulnerable

naked

ok, maybe not everyone has those dreams

but we know what it means

to pile vulnerability upon vulnerability

we know how it is

to feel exposed, and defenseless

sadly God

the more vulnerable we feel

the more we hide

the more we put up our defenses

we hide from those we fear

but also, all too often

from those we love

from those we would connect with

we even hide

or try to hide

from You

that doesn’t work very well

as Adam and Eve quickly learned

but Lord

you tell us you love us

you really love us

agape love

no strings attached

and we are reminded

that one “can’t make love all dressed up”

Lord

this day

every day

teach me

not to hide

not to clothe myself with fear

or even my own competence

remind me

to go that “space where there is nothing to prove and nothing to protect;

 where I am who I am, in the mind and heart of God,

and that is more than enough.”

remind me to let You love me