Made for love

We were made for love…  It amuses me that the Lord of Love overcomes the spirit of evil.

          Julian of Norwich

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There is love and then there is love

There is love directed toward the good

The love of God, love of self, love of others

 

There is the love that embraces and restores,

That reconciles and heals.

 

And then there is “misdirected love” (Thomas Aquinas)

where we miss the mark and embrace those things

that do not satisfy, and leave us hungry and bitter.

 

Love defiled becomes something other,

something which stains our souls and twists us,

and defiles us,

 

emerging as anger and even hate.

 

Ah, how quickly we walk the way of negativity, and

wandering through the shadow land,

look for all the terrors lurking in the darkness.

 

Looking we find them.

All the horrors we want to see come

oozing out, leaving us outrage.

 

“Have your heard what Biden has done!”

“Did you see what McConnell is up to now!?”

“The governor is trying to take away our freedom.”

“The government is trying to control us!”

 

Our entire beings quiver with negativity

and we become sour, haunted by the hungry ghosts of anger and resentment

 

And we respond in a way that makes us more wretched and pained,

moving into evil, into the unnatural,

allowing ourselves to be overcome by the world.

 

But we are created for love

It is in our nature to reject evil.

and we know, we have seen it, that grace annihilates sin.

 

Original blessing calls us to walk the path of positivity,

to look for and seek the good,

to find the good in the world, and in others,

to embrace it,

and pass it on

 

the power of love is greater than all darkness

 

sin is an effort

so is love

 

this day as I stumble into another day

may I look for the via positiva

may I look for love,

and thirst for the good,

 

and my it be love and grace on which I feast

and love and grace which I impart

and may I leave love and laughter

behind me