Think of the passion that consumes both our thoughts and hearts when we fall in love. Could it be that those feelings hint at the yearning that God feels for us every day, no matter what?
When we open ourselves to being loved, we change inside; God's love completes us, filling the gaps in our hearts and allowing our mended selves to more fully love God and each other.
This week, in preparation for Valentine's Day, we offer some thoughts about the enormity and constancy of God's complete and unconditional love.
We offer these reflections with prayers for God's peace ~
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For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
—Romans 8:38
The deepest truth is that there is nothing we can do to make God love us more than God already loves us and nothing we can do to make God stop loving us. The One who is behind all things is nothing but love, always has been and always will be.
—John Claypool
Say to yourself, "I am loved by God more than I can either conceive or understand." Let this fill all your soul and all your prayer and never leave you. You will soon see that this is the way to find God.
—Abbé de Tourville
For just a moment think of the difference in your life if you knew that at the deepest level of your being that God is besotted with you, that God yearns for you, yearns that you turn and be in relationship with God as the beloved of God.
—Marcus Borg
A Prayer in Praise of Love
Gracious God,
I am so grateful for the gift of love. The gift that alone makes life worth living. The gift that helps me value myself and my world. The gift that gives me the courage and desire to reach out to others.
