Given the worldwide political climate these days, it’s easy
to believe that humanity’s foundation is crumbling—that honesty, dignity, and compassion
are being subsumed by a tidal wave of greed, fear, and the desire for power.
How comforting, then, are the words of Psalm 119: “Forever is your word, O Lord;
from age to age is your truth.”
It feels like God’s truth—which is that love will prevail—is
being blocked on all fronts right now. However, as Cynthia Bourgeault observes,
“We flow into God, and God into us, because it is the nature of love to flow.”
It is not possible to stop the flow of love for long. A stream of water that is
blocked by a boulder will stream around the boulder and eventually wear it down
because that is the inviolable nature of water. It is the same with God’s truth.
At various times in human history, it has appeared as though
evil would prevail. Again, Psalm 119 contradicts that possibility, saying of
God, “All things are your servants”—which means that even acts stemming from fear,
ignorance, greed, and love of power will somehow ultimately serve God’s truth
and lead to a clearer channel of love. Jesus’ death and resurrection clearly
illustrate this principle. As Bourgeault further notes, “…‘laying down one’s
life for another’ is not a loss of one’s self but a vast expansion of
it—because the indivisible reality of love is the only True Self.”
To despair is a waste of time, because despair cannot
prevail. Instead, we should focus on doing what God asks of us, according to
the prophet Micah: “To act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with
your God.” Whether we stumble, walk, or flow is our choice, but the path is
always one of love.
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