Spirituality of love
Creator's love
Many
spiritual and religious thinkers have attempted to explain God’s love and its
manifestation in truly loving people.
Love of
Mother Teresa for example is one of the striking examples where she has
repeated several times that it is God’s love that she found the source for her
selfless service to the abandoned people.
It is a
proven fact that truly spiritual people who connect everyday to God have to be
loving people. A love that goes beyond their own origin, language, culture, and
nation and embrace all as brothers and sisters. I have encouraged people to
seek God’s love, read about it, listen to people talking about it, witness a
love gesture being shared in God’s name and found that helping them become
loving people.
Love is not loved
It is said
about the mystical ecologist Br. Francis of Assisi when he started experiencing
God’s abiding love in spiritual experiences and in the community of loving
brothers and sisters. He was so overwhelmed and started saying that love is not
loved.
Love meditation to Try
If you have
not experienced love in your childhood start today with a spiritual meditation
of love where you could just meditate about the affectionate gaze of God’s eyes
looking into your heart and filling it with warmth and love. Allow those
compassionate eyes of God to gaze into your wounds and blessings and see the
result for yourself. This is one of the Franciscan Contemplative Methods
suggested by Br. Jaime Rey a Capuchin Theologian and friend from Spain. He invites us to just be there in that loving
presence in silence and without words so that the love of the creator will
start influencing us deeply and transform us. Spending five minutes a day in
this meditation will transform you.
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