The following post is from the World Community of Christian Meditation and is something I deeply believe. I do hope we can learn to love while we still have some remaining days and nights to live out that love. No need to wait until the last second. Let's be easy on one another and this beautiful, beleaguered planet. Have a beautful, loved filled week.
St Augustine said that we can only love what is beautiful. This means that love reveals the beautiful even in things or people that don’t strike us as beautiful at first. How often do we find that as our first impression of someone fades, based as it was on superficial appearances or prejudices, a deeper insight comes to the fore and our response to this person is wholly changed. We feel bad about our misjudgement and shed it. Their true nature is now more visible and we resonate with it from a simpler, truer part of our self. Perhaps this is what awaits us all at the end of life, regardless of how mistakenly we have chosen to live. All our ways of seeing and knowing will fuse in a great healing simplicity as we see God. In that instant of pure perception – of the beauty ever ancient, ever new – we will not be able to resist falling in love, with the love that has always surrounded us. And so we will be saved.
( Meditatio Newsletter, October 2012 )
Photograph is the front of one of our Little Free Libraries here in San Leandro. September, 2018
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