Several times since I started blogging I had something that I knew needed to be said at that particular time but had a difficult time finding words that would appropriately express my thoughts.  On several of those occasions within the same day I was blessed to find the right words in a Daily Meditation from Father Richard Rohr from the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque.  Today that has happened yet again – so – with deep humility and gratitude I borrow some of Father Richard’s words about love.  If you do nothing else – I strongly suggest that you find your way to http://cacradicalgrace.org/ the website for the Center today and become a subscriber of Father Richard’s Daily Meditations.  Your life will be enriched if you do.

“Jesus commanded us to love, so we know it is not just a felling, since you cannot command feelings.  Love is a decision.

Jesus did not say: When you get healed, love; When you grow up, love; When you feel loving, love; When you get it together and have dealt with all your mother/father/husband/children wounds, then you are able to love.

No, the commandment for all of us is to LOVE now.

I think we know the love of God is within us when we ourselves can ‘do love’ much more than when people tell us we are loveable (that just feels good!).  We can always disbelieve the second, but the first is an unexplainable power from Beyond ourselves.  We know we are being used, and the ‘Living Water is flowing’ through us (John 7:38).  Daily Meditation from March 18, 2012

In this time of great fear and anxiety love – God’s love – most surely is the only remedy that is sure – so – with Father Richard let our prayer be: “I am falling into Love.”

Grace and peace