Only one path

Know it well, love is its meaning

Who reveals this to you?  Love

What does he reveal? Love.  Why? for Love

Remain in this and you will know more of the same.

                               Julian of Norwich (Showings)

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all we need is love

or so the song goes

 

but we struggle to love

we struggle to accept love

we struggle to offer love

and we find it difficult to engage with Love

 

that one who in love

through love

created and sustains all that is

 

love is fluid, quicksilvers

it is a flow of something

energy?

Emotion?

 

it trickles sometimes

sometimes it rushes and roars

 

and it connects us one to another

it is exchanged

given and received

freely

 

unearned

just given

 

love comes from God

“if you have never let God love you in the deep and subtle ways God does,

 you will not know how to love another human in the deepest ways of which

 you are capable”

 

but love of other is important too

God’s love is made most real in human love

In generosity, and forgiveness,

Compassion and kindness

 

the moment we chose to forgive

or include

or care

or listen

or give

 

love begins to flow

human love and divine love intermingled

irresistible

 

flowing, unstoppable

rushing, rippling, trickling

to the lowest place

to the place of pain, and hurt

to the region of fear and anger

of ooze and rot and old decay

 

and touching all it transforms

changes

moves us forward into what is good

 

which is why

twisted visages, full of anger

people with guns

hateful rhetoric

lies

greed

racism

 

are all so tragic

 

How can we choose this way?

Why do we listen to the voices of hate and prejudice?

Why do we think power will solve things?

More money

More domination?

 

When we have touched by Sacred Love

When it has flowed from the Sacred One

Into us

Filling, cleansing, transforming, empowering

 

And then has flown onward, outward

to all, all

 

there is “just no room for human punishment

vengeance, rash judgement, or calls for retribution” (Richard Rohr)

 

none of that

in spite of what “some people” say

will get us where we want to be

none of that will give us true safety, or true power

 

NO

 

There is only one path

The path of love

 

Therefore…

 

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature[b] of a servant, being made in human likeness.  And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death — even death on a cross!

 

That’s love

That is what we need

If we remain in love we will experience more love

If we remain in the realm of domination, retribution and hate?

 

Figure it out!