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Love is . . .

Love

Love is...
Love is decisive.
Love is relentless.
Love is stubborn.
Love is no matter what.
Love is no matter when.
Love is no matter the cost.
Love is "yes, and".
Love is "with".

Love is that thing, that mysterious, indescribable thing
which holds us together
when all else seems to be crumbling apart.

Love is reckless and illogical.
Love stands when it more convenient to sit.
Love stays when it is easier to leave.
Love is silent when all you want to do is speak.
Love speaks even when fear tries to steal your voice.

Love is beyond us,
Yet simultaneously dwells within us.

Love makes no sense.
Yet love is the only thing that makes sense out of our everyday nonsense.

Love cannot be found...
because
Love is.

This Advent, we await the arrival of Love made flesh.
If you listen closely you may even hear Love's voice...
in the cry of a child.
As Love, the love that is the presence of all of love
comes down to make its dwelling with us; within us.

Love is...

1 John 4:7-12
"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us."

Prayer and Activity
Sometime this week, before Christmas, take a moment to pause and think about someone who has been an example to you of the ferocity of love, someone who has reminded you of God's love, or someone who is the picture of love. Then write them a note or a letter.
This would be an incredible Christmas gift to give to the one who fits this description for you.
God who is Love, we give you thanks for the gift of a love that will never let us go. Amen.

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