Circles of Love

 

Yesterday, I invited you to immerse yourself in pondering how God’s love is showing up in your life or maybe where God feels a bit distant or disconnected.  How is love flowing from others or maybe you feel a drought/deficit in love for/from the people closest to you.  How are you loving/caring and receiving love for yourself?  Those questions, Jesus said, are at the center of faith.  We can spend our whole life and never exhaust or explore all that is evoked in this, because every day adds new experiences and fresh expressions (both good and not so good).  So today, I offer you a blessing from Jan Richardson:

 

Blessing That Meets You in Love

It is true that every blessing begins with love,
that whatever else it might say,
love is always precisely its point.

But it should be noted that this blessing has come today
especially to tell you it is crazy about you.
That it has been in love with you forever.
That it has never not wanted to see your face,
to go through this world in your company.

This blessing thought it was high time it told you so,
just to make sure you know.

If it has been shy in saying this,
it has not been for any lack of wanting to.
It’s just that this blessing knows the risk of offering itself
in a way that will so alter you—

not because it thinks you could stand some improving,
but because this is simply where loving leads.

This blessing knows how love undoes us, unhinges us, unhides us.

It knows how loving can sometimes feel like dying.

But today this blessing has come to tell you the secret
that sends it to your door: that it gives itself only to those willing to come alive;
that it vows itself only to those ready to be born anew.

 

Read, re-read these words.  Return to your circles to see what new expressions you might add to God, others, and yourself because of the blessing above.  May you live this blessing soaked and saturated in love this day.  Amen.