When All the Love in the World is Right Here Among Us

I can say it over and over again, but the truth in God's ridiculous love doesn't weaken: His love is not reasonable... Not to say He's not a god of reason, but that He defies it for us. I love the moments when a song gets stuck in my head or I see a bit of grace somewhere unexpected or I hear a word from a brother or sister and my wandering mind is miraculously focused. In those moments the clearest thing to me, so far above my views on any theological quandary, is that my sweet and terrifying God is sweetly and

terrifyingly in love with us.

I have been totally blown away with revelations on Pride, Trust, Orthopraxy, but it is never as severe as when my mind attempts to wrap itself around Love. Even in those quiet, often short episodes I am left different. It breaks me in the best way. When I spend more than a few minutes meditating I'm left paralyzed. I so enjoy learning more about Christianity - it's history, it's traditions, it's teachings - but if I never gained any more knowledge, but spent the rest of my life diving deeper into this Love, I would not be sorry. 

We can choose to meditate on love and let it affect us, let it move us to live a different life. Or we can choose the same degradation we've chosen before and perpetuate the brokenness.

Surely We Can Change by David Crowder Band

And the problem is this:

We were bought with a kiss

But the cheek still turned

Even when it wasn't hit

And I don't know

What to do with a love like that

And I don't know

How to be a love like that

When all the love in the world

is right here among us

And hatred, too

So we must choose

What our hands will do

Where there is pain

Let us bring grace

Where there is suffering

Bring serenity

For those afraid

Help them be brave

Where there is misery

Bring expectancy

And surely we can change...

Something

And the problem it seems

Is with you and me

Not the Love who came

To repair everything

When all the love in the world

is right here among us

And hatred, too

So we must choose

What our hands will do

Where there is pain

Let us bring grace

Where there is suffering

Bring serenity

For those afraid

Let us be brave

Where there is misery

Let us bring them relief

And surely we can change...

Something

The whole world's about to change