Thursday,
12/22/11
I was
taken with yesterday’s Gospel story of John leaping in his mother’s womb when
Mary and Jesus came in. I would like to have that kind or reaction to Jesus.
The other day when I stood holding up the host before Communion I saw one face
lifted up with deep love, and I thought, “I’d like to be as loving as that.”
I have
been playing around with the idea of stirring up more real love for the Lord,
and something came to me today.
For
several months now I have been meditating each day on the phrases in the first
chapter of John’s Gospel. I number the phrases like this: 1. “In the
beginning.” 2. “Was the Word.” 3. “The Word was with God, and the Word was
God.” 4. “All things came to be through him, and nothing came to be without
him.”
The
thought that number 4 usually generates in me is that the Father, looking at
his mirror image in the Son, finds there images he incorporates into creatures.
Today
that phrase generated a new thought for me. It was this: as John said, “God is
love.” What the Father, Son, and Spirit were doing for all eternity was
exchanging love. So, God created for one purpose. It was to spread around what
he found lovable in himself.
I was
walking down a neighboring street when that thought came to me. Looking around
at cloud, and flowers, and symmetrical constructions; and listening to birds I
thought, “These things are imperfect reflections of the lovable aspects of God.
Lately I have been loving
the world so much that I have not wanted to die, but the ideas God gave me
today make me feel that in God I will find the much more beautiful originals of
these things I love here.
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