"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins." I Peter 2:8
Galatians 5:6b reinforces this by stating that the only thing that matters "is faith expressing itself through love."
This week's tool is love. Love overwhelms wrong and love overwhelms difficulty.
In Trevor Noah's Born a Crime he talks about what it means to always be the other. The podcast we talked about Wednesday talked about being othered.
We live within a frame of reference, our culture is our bubble, and we other those outside it. The only solution is love. We are made in the image of God and God is Love.
God made a covenant with Israel. A covenant is a relational agreement. We have a covenant with God. John the Baptist is the last "Old Testament" prophet and the baptism is the passing of the baton, the making of a new covenant.
In the verse that says "heaven was opened" Mark's work literally means "heaven was torn open" and this implies it can never be closed to us again. Jesus opened God's presence to us.
What do you think God is really like? I think the cosmos is too large for our conception of God. But Love bridges that gap between infinity and our ability to understand.
We love because God first loved us, we love because we were made in the image of Love. But we do not have a monopoly on love. True Nature is "red in tooth and claw" (Tennyson), but that is not all Nature is.
Learn to live in the flow -- receiving God's love and letting it flow through us to the world.
"The regular cultivation of one's soul prepares one to love unconditionally and automatically."
The Spirit of God is here. The Spirit of Love is here. God wants to connect with you.
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