I am glad to be back in the loop with everyone now that John is moving around on his own!
I finished this chapter after our discussion this morning. This really spoke to me "When the love of God is in me, God is able to love you through me and you are able to love God through me. If my soul were closed to that love, God's love for you and your love for Goad, and God's love for Himself in you and in me, would be denied the particular expressio nwhich it finds through me and through no other". It makes me realize that at times in my life when I have denied loving someone - be that person one known to me or a stanger, I have in some way diminished God's love in our world. That is pretty powerful. It is one thing to think about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and so forth - but to consider seriously that if we do not we are not only limiting Christ's work on our earth, we are actually diminishing it and diminishing experiences of God that we could be having and that were intended for us. Think about that - I have thought about it all day!
We have a lot to still discuss in this chapter! Hopefully next Friday we will be able to continue and start earlier!
A.
1 comment:
I agree that we have just scratched the surface of this chapter. The first 2 paragraphs under "Merton's Voice" caught my attention. It is a struggle to empty oneself of all of the thoughts and wants that the world fills us with, and yet remain fully connected and engaged in the world. I am reading Max Lucado's "Traveling Light", and have just finished a chapter entitled "The Prisoner of Want (The Burden of Discontent)" and found many connections between that and idea of filling oneself with the love of God.
Mary
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