If you come in touch with that first love you will discover not only that you are loved unconditionally, but that the One who loves you unconditionally loves all of humanity unconditionally, with that same all-embracing love. And the fact that God loves you so intimately and personally does not mean that God loves anyone else less or differently. Uniquely, yes. But whether they are Nicaraguans or Russians, people from Afghanistan or Iran or South Africa, they all belong to the house of God.
And therefore, when you enter into intimate communion with the God of the first love, you will find yourself in intimate communion with all the people of God, because the heart of God is the heart that embraces the whole of humanity. That's why intimacy with God always means solidarity with the people of God. To put it more precisely: God pitched a tent among us and took on our flesh so that there is no human flesh that has not been accepted by God.
Can't get more comforting than that! And another call for solidarity among the human family.
This is the solution to the world's problems. Simple but vastly profound.
This week's e-mails are responses to the idea of the "other". It is important that we contemplate and embrace the other, but we must differentiate between legal acceptance and God's acceptance. In light of the the full embrace of God's Love, the specifics of immigration law fail completely, regardless of how they are written. Governments can do good, but they can not do God.
We studied in Mark, Chapter 10, about Jesus and His blessing of the children, and how He called us to come to Him as if we were children.
I get a picture of Jesus standing there, with all of us gathering around him, hanging on to his legs, laughing and playing in His midst.
What a beautiful way to start my day. The image of us all being loved unconditionally, by the Trinity.
Thank you,
Deanna
Anybody have the email address for Arizona's lawmakers to forward this?
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