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The Art of Love is not what you might think……
It is not an act, nor a series of acts.
The Art of Love is just that; an Art.
The Art of Love is a level that few of us ever obtain, but, are
both capable of, and search for.
The Art of Love is opening your heart.
The Art of Love is a place; a place where YOU have been
taken because of someone.
Someone who you have the deepest connection with; a connection
so deep, it feels innate; cellular if you wish.
The Art of Love can be elusive, but once found, cannot be ignored.
I write this because I have both ignored and rediscovered The
Art of Love…..
The Art of Love has shown me perfection in an imperfect
world.
An imperfect world where screws fall out all the time!
But, in this imperfect world, exists perfection.
Beautiful, honest, true blue perfection…
This perfection makes YOU a better person in many ways.
It allows you to give.
It allows you to give unconditionally.
The Art of Love is as close to unconditional love as we humans
can ever hope to achieve.
The Art of Love has touched ME.
It has touched ME in the most profound of ways.
When your every thought is of SOMEONE ELSE, and not
YOURSELF, you have reached the threshold.
A threshold covered up by life’s daily disappointments.
A threshold, hidden to the naked eye.
If you CHOOSE to brush off this threshold, and, step over, you
will have discovered what I have…..perfection and….
The Art of Love.
C.P. Hoffman
Compassion is the courage to enter into another’s suffering for the sake of their blessing. It is not always problem solving. It is presence, out of which we may take action to bring about healing or justice. Jesus went to Bethany not merely to fix Lazarus, but to enter into the sisters’ grief, the grief of all mortals that even Jesus cannot spare us from. Thomas, Faithful Thomas, recognized his courage, and chose to share it.
It is only from the place of weeping with those who weep that we can enact healing for those who suffer and justice for those who are oppressed. What stands between us and the eradication of poverty and injustice is not power, resources or adequate economic theories, but the insulation we place in fear between us: we are afraid of feeling their loneliness or their hunger, touching their hopelessness, sharing their pain.
Our Lenten fasting is a practice of courage, of entering into another’s suffering, even a small bit of it, for the sake of compassion and justice, and learning to care about love more than comfort and security. Our fasting and prayer is no mere gesture. It is practice, by which we enter into the suffering of the world for the sake of its healing. In so doing we enter into the heart of God, whose very nature is self-giving love for the sake of her beloved Creation. The measure of our suffering is of no matter: in prayer and fasting we die to ourselves and become part of the Body of Christ, sharing the love of Jesus and the courage of the saints and martyrs. Forty-three years ago on this day, April 4, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. In prayer and in fasting, his courage and compassion becomes ours.
In love, weep with those who weep and stand with those who are oppressed, in the spirit of the One who weeps with us in love, the One who calls us out of our fear into new life, who raises us up, unbinds us and sets us free.
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