Written by our Lay Leader, Doug
Last night, trying to get back to sleep, I repeated in my mind: “Love of God.” I desired to contemplate God’s love, imagining it holding me and cradling me like a mother until I fell back to sleep. And it did.
I awoke in the early morning desiring to continue meditating on God’s love. With my coffee cup in hand, I sat on the front porch, listening to the birds’ joyful songs, and admiring the cat stretching out on his back, and feeling the warmth of the orange morning sun rays, and breathing in the fragrance of the blooming ginger lilies. In all those things, I beheld God’s love.
His love shows itself in all His creation. Only man’s sins stain and threaten to obscure His love, but instead, man’s iniquities only serve as contrast to expose and magnify God’s love. His love comes through in the midst of man’s hatred, arrogance, and rebellion. God’s love cannot be hidden or expunged. It overwhelms all those emotions, thoughts, and actions that threaten to overpower it.
Love consumes hatred.
Love punishes evil.
Love extinguishes the ego.
Love extols God’s power.
Love beautifies all creation.
Love covers over sin.
Love prepares us for eternity.
Love lavishes life.
Love connects generations.
Love propels us in time.
Love fills in all gaps.
Love opens all doors.
Love extends our being in all directions.
Love nurtures the tiniest seed of hope.
Love nourishes faith.
Love evaporates ill will.
Love pulls us into God’s lap.
Love answers every doubt.
Love goes beyond our human strength.
Love plunders our hearts.
Love softens our hardened hearts.
Love flows from God like a spring.
Love gushes like a fountain.
Love splashes like falling water.
Love satisfies life’s thirst.
Love satiates our hunger.
Love inspires our creativity.
Love fuels our innovation.
Love evolves into newness.
Love solves life’s challenges.
Love radiates.
Love warms.
Love glows.
Love goes.
Love does.
Love did.
Love will.
Love is.