i enjoy flying, as you may know, and one reason is that once i'm through
security a kind of peace sets in--i have no control over whether the
plane will make it or not and in letting go there is freedom. does that
make sense? and i do choose to put myself there--by buying the
ticket--but i don't have a choice once i'm there. i can't switch flights
very easily and i can't actually fly the plane.
this leads me to think on unconditional love, with my first thought being that we resist unconditional love because it reduces us to a place of helplessness, a place we were born into but spend our lives trying to forget. in that place we are held and cared for NOT on the basis of anything we do, simply on the merit of the One who loves us. and yet in that humble, vulnerable place we find a place of supreme joy as we are taken care of much better than we could ever do for ourselves. it is paradoxically humbling and uplifting.
it's akin to the joy i feel as i look at the ocean--fearful of it's terrifying depths yet dazzled by it's beauty. we do live in a world of paradoxes, yet therein lies the opportunity for faith. trusting the God who loves us unconditionally we can walk through life as Suhard says:
To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist.
this leads me to think on unconditional love, with my first thought being that we resist unconditional love because it reduces us to a place of helplessness, a place we were born into but spend our lives trying to forget. in that place we are held and cared for NOT on the basis of anything we do, simply on the merit of the One who loves us. and yet in that humble, vulnerable place we find a place of supreme joy as we are taken care of much better than we could ever do for ourselves. it is paradoxically humbling and uplifting.
it's akin to the joy i feel as i look at the ocean--fearful of it's terrifying depths yet dazzled by it's beauty. we do live in a world of paradoxes, yet therein lies the opportunity for faith. trusting the God who loves us unconditionally we can walk through life as Suhard says:
To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist.
