We see the world either with the eyes of love or with the eyes of a painful absence of love. It is a very simple element that transforms or renews our life. We’ll end with a few words of St Paul about the centrality of love in our life, the understanding that meditation brings us to. The mystery of love is the central mystery of our lives; love is the creative and the healing power in our life. One of the great sayings of St John is: “Whoever loves, lives in God.” What is very significant is that he doesn’t say “whoever loves God lives in God” but “whoever loves lives in God”. St Paul says:
With this in mind, I kneel in prayer to the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name, that out of the treasures of his glory, He may grant you strength and power through his Spirit in your inner being so that, through faith, Christ may dwell in your hearts in love. With deep roots and firm foundations, may you be strong to grasp with all God’s people what is the height and length and depth and breadth of the love of Christ, and to know it though it is beyond knowledge. And so may you come to fullness of being, the fullness of God himself. (Eph 3:14-19)
(Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
