"There is a given-ness to God. God is not withheld; God is the one who is handed over. That's what we mean when we say that God is love. But it's not like our love. When we love, we wait and we see something good out there. If it's attractive enough, if it's good enough, we give ourselves to it. God simply gives. We find that kind of love very hard to understand because we're not able to love that way."(R. Rohr "Radical Grace" p. 252)
Most people I know at some point or another have fallen in love. Whether that be with a spouse or partner, job, some activity, something or someone that brings them joy. When that happens we become incredibly enthusiastic, giving are all to it. The problem is that occasionally the initial wow wears off and then you have to ask do I really love this person or this whatever it may be.
I think it would be hard to love the way that God loves. It's pretty much hard to do anything the way God does really. And yet that's the call. To throw ourselves into each day from a loving perspective. Not one where we constantly ask what's in it for me. Called to give of ourselves to whatever situation we find ourselves in. Again incredibly hard and I find usually not all that successful. There are just as many times that I'll do something out of duty rather than love, and I there is definitely a difference.
I am thankful that God doesn't operate like that. That God can look at us in all our sometimes ugly and undeserving ways and yet still love us. With nothing in it for God, except to be who God is.
Blessings,
Ed
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