Love is as ineffable as its Author. My feeble words will never adequately relay the visions of color and emotion rising within my spirit when it comes to the matter of Love. Still, I cannot contain the expression of devotion for the One within!
I should first make a brief differentiation in the semantics of love. There is a common meaning of love that is rooted in fleshly passion. This is fleeting. We find this love in Hollywood and fairy tales. We also find it in selfish desire. Young girls (and some not so young) often blindly chase this fleeting butterfly along the treacherous paths of worldly existence. I'm all too familiar with the danger along these paths. You see, contentment cannot be found in chasing this elusive butterfly of love. Even if one lucky girl catches the butterfly in her net, she soon discovers her butterfly will not survive captivity. This kind of love resides solely in the imagination and will never manifest in tangible form. It is not the love I wish to share, for its pursuit is futile.
There is, however, a Love worthy of pursuit. It doesn't require a butterfly net or an all-night stakeout. It can't be found running and panting through dark existence. It isn't an object to be stolen or even conquered. How do you conquer freedom, after all? To think freedom is conquerable is to enslave it. What freedom is that? No - this Love is a gift, a free gift that leads to life. In fact, it is the very definition of life. This is divine Love, neither fleeting nor elusive. So, where does one find such unconquerable Love? One need only to lay down their net and look up. In the upward gaze, one will find Another looking down waiting to pour out Love unimaginable. And what Love He is!
He is the wellspring of life that overflows without containment. Filled to overflowing, there are times I'm ready to explode. Times when the One living within me bursts forth and shatters through the darkness of the world. Truly, He is the Light that enlightens all humankind (John 1:9). His Love reaches the deepest depths of my spirit and fills me completely. He lights my lowest valleys and stands radiantly on my highest summits. He transcends all that I am and carries me to the heights of life. Yet, it is in my descent to nothingness that God's love is strongest within me. For it is in my nothingness that God can love through me. I love deeply because God dwells deeply and in communion with Him, I live deeply. This is Love and love divine.
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