Love moves us where we wish to go
4.24.2010 | All Blog Posts, Unceasing Prayer
Another journal post on the practice of unceasing, interior prayer. From September 13, 2007:
Why does God send love into our hearts? Why tend this love so diligently, unceasingly? Why love for God above all else? Because, as Jesus said, “where your treasure is there will your heart be also.”
Our affections move us. If we love foolishly, we move through this life as fools. If crude loves attach us to unholy things, we become crude and unholy.
“The foot of the soul is love,” wrote St. Augustine, “for it moves us by means of love to the place it’s going.”
The place I long to go is God. My love for God is the only thing that’ll move me where I long to go.
4.26.2010
In a devotional i read yesterday, there was a quote from a Spanish poet. It went something like: “There is no path,” and “In walking you make the path.”
Somehow i think it ties in with your journal post.
4.27.2010
Yes, I like that, Sarah. There is a sense that in Christ we are summoned to relinquish all.
At the end of John’s Gospel Peter is told that in his younger years he decided where he would go and when, but in his later years–when he was more fully united with Christ–he would be lead blindly, relinquishing all but love and would be carried where he otherwise would not take himself.
We walk forward, our hearts yielded and open to the Holy Spirit, and the path opens before us.