“I give them eternal life, and they will never perish.”
—John 10.28
This doesn’t mean you’ll go on
for a long time after you die.
(It’s life that’s eternal, not you.)
It means right now you are part
of a mystery that is infinitely deep,
given life that can’t be taken from you.
You are part of the Body of God’s love
which can’t be killed.
Love doesn’t die; it evaporates,
still present in another form.
Love is the Word that was in the beginning
and ever shall be, that creates all things.
When you love you are part
of the original “Let there be light,”
that lives on even after the darkness is gone.
Even in failure, love accomplishes its purpose.
This promise is not only for comfort,
but for courage.
Love, then. Let nothing stop you.
It will matter forever.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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