“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God”. (1 John 4:7)
If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure.
We are invited to encounter a love that just keeps opening to us, and then pass on the same by “opening and opening” to the increasingly larger world around us, willingly falling into the “bright abyss,” where all weighing and counting are unnecessary and even burdensome.
We are invited…
more7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 …
moreThe question of why there is anything at all, why there is something and not nothing, finds an answer in the basic character of the Creator: “God is love” (1 John 4:8). The living God is love, faithful, challenging, and compassionate love as the scriptures often declare…. This love is the wellspring of creation. There is no pressure on infinite holy mystery to create and continuously support a world. How could there be? It is done freely, as a flaming, generous act of love, the plentitude of infinite love overflowing. With simple reasoning one biblical book figures it this way: “For you…
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Give us grace today to live through Jesus9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
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Give us grace today to live as those who are loved and forgiven10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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Give us grace today to love others as we have been loved by you.10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
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Give us grace today to love others12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
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Give us grace today to be open to your Spirit13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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Give us grace today to pray for peace in our world14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.
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Give us grace today to let our thoughts, actions and words be a celebration of all that Jesus is.15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
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