Monday, April 30, 2007

Today’s text

1 John 4:7-8

“Beloved, let us love on another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

Prayer

Love is as love as, Holy One. You are Love, and you do. You act, loving not in word alone but in deed and truth, giving your world its daily breath and the breadth of your mercy in our brother Jesus.

Love lives not in word alone but in actions. Your love allow us to enter the safe and wide space where our souls can breathe in the atmosphere of freedom, knowing we are well, no matter our circumstance, for we yours. We dwell in the precinct of your unchanging love and nothing can change this central reality of our lives.

So let us know you are love and become the love you are, safe spaces where other souls may breathe and find truest humanity. May our deeds and being provide welcome space where others might live and know the love that beats at heart of the universe and in your children.

And in our loving, may we know not only the freedom, the open space of soul you give, but you. We would know not merely your benefits but the Surpassing Wonder you are that we again may know that you are Love itself, seeking to restore in us your blessed image. Amen.

Pr. David L. Miller