Love is the answer

Everything I might want to say this morning has already been said. Sometimes I need to listen more than I need to speak.

In this vision [our Lord] showed me a little thing, the size of a hazel-nut, lying in the palm of my hand, and it was round as a ball. I looked at it with my mind's eye and thought 'What can this be?' And the answer came to me, 'It is all that is made.' I wondered how it could last, for it was so small I thought it might disappear. And the answer in my mind was: "It lasts and will last forever, because God loves it; and in the same way everything exists through the love of God.' In this little thing I saw three attributes: the first is that God made it, the second is that he loves it, the third is that God cares for it.

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the Soul of Man: without which you are dark and miserable. Consider therefore the extent of Love, its vigour and excellency.  For certainly he that delights not in Love makes vain the universe, and is of necessity to himself the greatest burden. The whole world ministers to you as the theatre of your Love: It sustains you and all objects that you may continue to love them.

Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations, Second Century, Meditation 65

As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 15:9,12 (NRSV)

The Lord, your God, is in your midst... he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing...

Zephaniah 3:17 (NRSV)

Strange, this love announced by Our Lord turns all of life right. To love others is to fill our own empty spaces.

Thomas à Becket 

Love is the answer.

Todd Rundgren