Embracing the And

In Christ, there is no such dynamic as either/or.  Despite our fondness for imposing burdensome ultimatums on one another, God always gives us the both/and.  "And" is open-ended and on going. "And" is the frontier that is God's love which is both known and yet unknown.  God's embrace knows no limits.  In 1 Corinthians 13:7, the  Apostle Paul wrote, "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."  Often that has felt both burdensome and impossible to me. That is because I forget that that we do not bear things alone. I forget about the yoke that is light.