As I have been praying the Prayer of Examen this Lent, I am more and more drawn to, and transformed by The Sacred’s response to the sharing of my unloving unfree moment: “I know that about you AND I love you.”
I have been struck by it deep down in the core of my being.
God does not respond: I know that about you BUT I love you anyway. or I love you EVEN THOUGH I know that about you. or I know that about you YET I love you.
God responds: I know that about you AND I love you.
Loving me is not conditional upon what I do. My unloving, unfree moments; those moments when I ‘missed the mark’ does not separate me from the love of the Holy. God loves me for WHO I am and HOW I am in this world. Period!!!
Spirit does not say: I know that about you. (space) (space) I love you.
Spirit says: I know that about you AND I love you.
The two phrases are not separate. They are together united as one. Spirit’s love for me is in response to knowing me, knowing everything about me. No conditions. No separation.
The Sacred responds each and every time we ‘miss the mark’ with: I know that about you AND I love you.
A powerfully transformative expression of LOVE; true real authentic free LOVE.
Upon hearing Spirit’s words of LOVE, we are invited to consider a grace we would like to receive for the next day.
My grace has been the same: The grace to be able to say, as the Sacred does, to others: “I know that about you AND I love you.” The grace to really truly authentically, from a place of deep spiritual freedom LOVE fully. No buts, yets, even thoughs involved!
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