In all that is love

 

Then Jesus called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. (Luke 9:1-20)

The kingdom of God is the energy of divine love pouring from the Loving Mystery, drawing all that is into its healing waters.   

To be captured in its flow, even for a moment, transports the heart into the joy-filled freedom of knowing all that we are is welcome, enveloped in the Love who draws us near to heal our hearts and make us whole.

The disciples knew this Love in Jesus’ presence as he sent them out to bless, heal and announce the great tide of God’s energetic love present among them. Their power was the surge of divine love awakened within them, freeing them from their fears to bless, welcome and share the Love inundating their hearts.

The power of the kingdom remains available to us in these latter days.

It is the joy and freedom awakened when our hearts know and are filled with the Love who embraces us despite ourselves, our sins and failures. The energy of divine love is known in all that is love, in the welcome of friends, the beauty of an autumn sun, the compassionate tear that stings our eyes over the suffering of a friend ... or of human souls a thousand miles away.

All of this and so much more is the energy of the Love who is and was and ever shall be embracing our lives, lifting us out of ourselves, out of our funk, that our startled faces may glow with the light of an eternal love, free and filled with the joy God intends.

David L. Miller