“What the world needs now is love, sweet love,” according to the Burt Bacharach song. Sometimes truth is simple, in truth too simple to be understood. It really all does come down to love–the divine unconditional love that knows no boundaries.
In today’s world with its greed, violence and chaos, we could truly use an infusion of divine love.
One of my favorite biblical passages is from Paul’s letter to the Corinithians (1.13): The language soars with poetry as it describes the glory of love:
“If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast[a] but do not have love, I gain nothing…Love never ends. … as for knowledge, it will come to an end.” (NRSVUE)
All spiritual teachings and practices can be judged from the perspective of love. Unfortunately, many of us are imprisoned in limiting ideologies that we use to judge others, and this limits our ability to love unconditionally as God loves us. Our love nature needs to grow so that it is all encompassing like the ocean, instead of like a small rivulet.
