Reflection (The readings are below, for your reference)
I am in the middle of reading Doing the Truth in Love by Michael J. Himes, for the third time. Yes, I recommend it! One of his major themes is that there is no perfect understanding of God but that the least imperfect is that God is love: pure, selfless, all-giving love. Today’s snippet from the gospel of John falls within Jesus’s last words to his disciples before going to Jerusalem to face his death, and he focuses his attention on God’s love. One of the things I have learned is that when I face a difficult time, if I focus on love, the difficulty levels out a little bit and I find a way through to the other side.
Namaste! Amen!
The Readings
Acts 15:7-21
Psalm 96:1-3,10
John 15:9-11
As my Abba has loved me, so have I loved you. Live on in my love. And you will live on in my love if you keep my commandments, just as I live on in Abba God’s love and have kept God’s commandments. I tell you all this that my joy may be yours, and your joy may be complete.
The reading translation is from The Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007).
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