(A jar of love, by Seatree.)
It is such an easy thing, to throw around the word love. It is such a difficult thing to live it out. But despite all those difficult-to-understand parables, Jesus was clear on his commandment shortlist- love God and love others as yourself. Everything, it would seem, flows from these two commanments.
Through an on-going exploration of the faith traditions of the Celtic western fringe, I increasingly see God not as something distant, but something we discover through incarnation – not just with sunsets and furry cute animals, but even those parts of ourselves that are deepest and most true. This all hints at the God who is the very substance of all that us evolving, unfolding and expanding. In tihs teaching, we find God inside the human soul not through addition, but through subtraction – by setting aside all those things we carry and realising that at the end of it all, we are just jars for love.
At our best, we leak.
