I’d like to turn to the third aspect of love, which is the love of God. There is a very close relationship between the way we imagine or what we think about God, and the way we experience God. Part of the problem we face when we come to meditation is that there is often a big gap between what we think about God, the God in our minds, and what we actually experience of God, the God in our hearts; between the God beyond images, and the God we have put into an image. This gap between image and experience, or thought and experience is one of the wounds, one of the divisions within ourselves that is healed by meditation. It’s a wound or division that usually, for most of us, begins in childhood.
(Aspects of Love 2 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
