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Today’s
text
John
13:34
I give you a new
commandment: love one another; you must love one another just as I have loved
you.
Reflection
Jesus calls us to ourselves. He calls us to our joy, the joy
God intends for every human soul, a joy that is known only in loving.
Creation, life and our precious lives are expression of God,
who is Love--the One who creates us out of the fullness of divine being. All
that is--and each of us--is an expression of divine being, an extraversion of
the substance of God’s soul, a soul that is all love and nothing but loving.
Love creates for the joy of giving and seeing its own joy in
the face of that which it creates.
Love hungers to see the smile that lights our eyes when we
wake up once more and realize the wonder and sheer gratuity of being alive, of
coming to a new day and feeling fresh spring breeze on our flesh.
Love smiles on the startled face of our amazement when we
realize we were called from nothingness into existence solely that we might
know ourselves loved.
We are children of this Love, extraversions of Love’s inner
heart, incarnations of the One Love from all creation comes.
The call to love as Jesus loves is a call home, a call to be
ourselves, a call to share the joy of the One who made us.
We come to one more day, one more opportunity to tremble
with joy at the gift of our existence, one more chance to laugh and sing, to
witness beauty and to give the beauty of grace and love to Love’s other
children that they, too, might be themselves.
We have now, this moment. Tomorrow is not ours and may never
be. But today is ours, and we can pour out whatever love as is in us--and share
God’s own smile.
It’s what we are made for.
Pr. David L. Miller
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