Dearly Beloved,
Grace and Peace to you.
Those who love me will keep my word,
and my Mother-and-Father will love them,
and we will come to them
and make our home with them.
— John 14.23
Heaven is not a distant country.
It comes to you.
It grows around you.
It is your home,
your your most inward, intimate place,
your deepest belonging.
To love your neighbor
is to welcome them
into the home of your heart
where God is.
You let the love well up in you
and it returns enlarged,
and you find yourself
embraced, en-webbed,
familied.
No matter what day comes,
what despair or undeserving,
you are still among
the Beloved ones
who gladly live with you.
Even in drought the well
is surrounded by flowers
and the greenest of grass.
Deep Blessings,
Pastor Steve
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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