the flawed are called

We can only transform people to the degree that we have been transformed. We can only lead others as far as we ourselves have gone. We have no ability to affirm or to communicate to another person that they are good or special until we know it strongly ourselves  

Richard Rohr – Daily Meditations 7/2/2021

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Love it appears

is always incarnational

 

if it is truly Love, it must be fleshed out

made real

 

Love created all that there is!

stating firmly (in my opinion)

“Here I am”  “I am love”

 

When we didn’t get it

Love incarnated again, coming as a squalling child

coming as one who forgave, healed, and welcomed

to remind us

 

and now

in this time and in this place

Love calls people to be people of love

 

But it is not an easy task

being the ongoing incarnation of Love

for we are fearfully and wonderfully made

and we are also a right mess

 

we love power, way too much

we are afraid, way too often

we fall into rank tribalism far too eagerly

 

and our love of money

leads to a plethora of ills

 

and yet, here we are

called

commissioned

set aside

 

to be the ambassadors of Love

to be the image of Love in this world

 

It is the intention of that reality we called Sacred, or God

that when people look at us they go

“Hey look, Love!”

 

Scary, right?

because as has been mentioned, we are a right mess

 

But then it is always the flawed who are called

(we all are flawed and we all are called)

and our flaws are not a problem

 

because here is the truth

we are the ongoing incarnation

we are filled with Love

transformed by Love

empowered by Love

 

and that love leaks out

 

perhaps that is the way things were intended

that Love would work through such flawed people as

Abraham, Moses, Aaron, David,

Peter, Paul,

You and I

 

so that “no one should boast” (says Paul)

so that it should be clear

this when we serve Love

it is through a power not our own

 

I may be a mess

You may be a mess

But we are God’s mess

We are love's handiwork

set aside to do the work of Love