Dearly Beloved,
Grace and Peace to you.
You were created to love.
It is your nature, and your purpose.
Your fears and desires get in the way:
your self-centeredness, your desire for control,
your fear of loss or diminishment,
your weakness and your wounds,
your attachment to things
that subvert love and drain life from you,
all prevent you from loving perfectly.
But their power is an illusion.
We flung them all at Jesus—
even death, and the wort suffering.
And they did not stop him;
they could not stop love.
God has defeated them,
buried them in the grave with him,
and he has come to us now without them.
He has risen, and has overcome them all.
You are free to love.
When you love you die to that world of fear,
and you are raised to a new life.
When you love you enter into God,
into what is divine and infinite and eternal.
When you love, even at great cost,
and even if you fail,
even if you have no effect at all,
you have won the victory.
Deep Blessings,
Pastor Steve
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