“God doesn’t want me to try to become more loving. He wants me to absorb his love so that it flows out from me. Only love is capable of genuine transformation. Willpower is inadequate. Thomas Merton reminds us that the root of Christian love is not the will to love but the faith to believe that one is deeply loved by God. Embarking on the journey of Christian spiritual transformation is enrolling in the divine school of love. Our primary assignment in this school is not so much study and practice as it is letting ourselves be deeply loved by our Lord.”
David Benner
How are you doing at letting yourself be deeply loved by God?
Grace and peace,
Deb
2 comments:
Struggling with that right now. Thanks for another thought provoking blog.
oooooo, thanks for that reminder, I always am thinking that I need to be a better job at loving others and what I really need to be doing is receiving love better....
Carol
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