Minister's Musings

Beyond Sunday: Love

When people try to explain God, they often will simply say, God is love. And really that is sufficient. Because love is everything. Love is the creative impulse: to bring beauty, life, warmth, good, and more into being. Love is a quilt made for new baby, a meal prepared for someone who is hungry, love is a song offered to a congregation that waits in expectant silence. Love is care and compassion: wrapping someone who is lonely in a hug, respectfully listening to someone who needs to talk, being gentle and kind in a world which is hard. Love is being good stewards of the natural world which cares for us. Love is a relationship. It is something that is brought into being, in the space between. Love is at the heart of the community that we are constantly building together.

Truly God is love. God is all of these things and more.

May you know that you are beloved of God.

May you be blessed by all whom you love and who love you.

And finally, Merry Christmas, from the bottom of my heart, to each one of you from me.

-Kirsty-