IF GOD IS LOVE, THEN LOVE MUST BE GODLY

They say that God is Love. I have heard that since childhood……and you probably have too. Though it took a while, actually quite a while, in time I came to realize that was true.

In those three short words……just ten letters……is spelled out one of the foundations of our spiritual reality, a touchstone of man’s search for the meaning of his existence.

Still, for some of us equating God and Love in a single sentence may have the the vague feel of philosophical haziness……an ethereal, seemingly imprecise notion, hard to pin down.

Yet, over the years most of us have learned there is nothing more real than the reality of Love’s place in our life, and its role in creating the person we hope to be. I’m guessing that most of us will admit that the life moments we best remember are likely to include that special ingredient in one or more of its many forms.

As an aging soul, when I find myself adrift in a lonely, isolated world I am apt to be longing for the Love that seems to have left my life. (Though in my more lucid moments I realize that loss is an illusion.)

And the antidote for that stifling aloneness? It is Love……beginning with a spiritual connection to the nebulous reality I was raised to call the Holy Spirit……and reinforced by the caring company of the fellow travelers I meet on my path through late-life.

But, of course, Love at our age is something more than a mental mind game……and certainly different than a return to the romantic Love of our earlier days. Seems to me that the Love we October/November folks are looking for works best in the form of caring connections, human interactions……especially those with other late-lifers who are apt to share a tinge of our perceived emptiness.

Those possibilities may include a sometimes overlooked reality……that is, many of the folks we pass on our life path are in need of the personal attention we can offer them……brief as it might be……in the same way their paying attention to us can be a welcome balm in our life. 

When all is said and done what we need in our life is to have the Holy Spirit (whatever that means to us) being made into something more than a mental image, a comforting thought constraint. I need it to become an experienced reality……one I can rely on every day

So……if God is Love……then Love is Godly. Right? And as such it is a powerful blessing for us to be spreading around in today’s often fearful, unloving world.

Bottom line for us as individuals…….spread the word……spread the caring and kindness……spread the Love.

Gil Stewart