H,
There is a sense of
community that cannot be breached by the arguments we have. It is clear that we
are human for now and so we will disagree. The fights cannot be stronger than
the love. The love must remain supreme.
There is a clear line under
which no one is really right and no one is really wrong. Something in us
rejects this notion. We want a clear rule of thumb for life only measured by
us. This is not what faith gives us. Faith defends only love. Faith speaks only
to love. Hope is a feeling, faith is in acts and love is a state of being. Our community
of faith works by love. The basics of our faith are sure. For the rest, we can
only measure it by love.
Everything is, in truth, measured
by how much we love each other. There is no other criteria for growth or
spiritual wellbeing. We have tried to fill the empty house of love with
doctrine and it has often led to disaster. All our words and acts and being
alive can be measured by how we love. It is the very nature of God. It is as
close to being Him as we will ever be.
A community in God must be a
place of love and nothing else. We cannot go wrong if we love. How do we know
we are loving? If we are truly thinking of how to help and not hurt, how to bring
up and not put down, how to be vulnerable to one another and not manipulative,
we will know it within our own hearts. God looks at what your heart is doing. You
know your heart, mostly. You know what you intend by that word or this act. That
is where the real war for your soul is.
Ultimately we will fail at
it enough to give our hearts to God. We will realise we cannot love. We do not
know how to reach that fullness. We will encounter an end to ourselves that is
the start of a new walk with God. This will happen every day we are open. If we
stay by ourselves we can never reach the heights of this awareness and see the
depths of our own awakening. If we engage with the world and with each other we
will be made into that sort of perfect love that changed the world and the
nature of all things on Calvary.