The Centrality of Love

The more you succeed in loving,

the more you'll be convinced

at the existence of God

and the immortality of your soul " ....

                              Fyodor Dostoevsky

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if the Beloved is love

and the Sacred One insists it is so

then how can we ever hope to know the Sacred

if we immerse ourselves in hate

and anger?

“God is love,

  and is sending you to hell”

Doesn’t quite work

(at least not for me)

talking grace

but living judgment

doesn’t work either

it all must start with love

when we are not

in love

we are not in contact with the Sacred

when we are not in contact with Sacred

it is hard to experience the Sacred as reality

when we do not experience Sacred as reality

it is difficult to believe that love overcomes

even death

when we are not sure we are loved

and are not sure that we will be reunited with the Sacred

moving from communion with the Beloved

to union with the Beloved

then, we live in fear, not peace,

we lived closed, protective lives, not open ones,

we judge, rather than accept,

and exclude, rather than include….

we must succeed in loving

for across the bridge of love

comes God

comes hope

comes everything