Barbara:

Thomas Keating wrote, “We’re all like localized vibrations of the infinite goodness of God’s presence. So love is our very nature. Love is our first, middle, and last name. Love is all; not [love as] sentimentality, but love that is self-forgetful and free of self-interest.”

Oh my goodness I love that quote! It says it all. That’s the part we forget—that we are LOVE in our essence. The part of us that we don’t recognize as our Self…the part that could be called Soul.

Rami Shapiro says, “God is our SOURCE and our SUBSTANCE.” If you substitute the word LOVE for GOD, then you have the real message. LOVE is our source and our substance. We came from Love, and Love is the substance we are made of.

I think of each cell in my body—the smallest particle (or wave) of my self—as a part of God…a part of Love. I dare to say that if God is our Source and our Substance, then WE ARE LOVE. We are the manifestation of God in the world. When the world sees you, it sees God!

There is a beautiful song whose words are attributed to Teresa of Avila:

“Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”

Let’s BE that LOVE for a world that is hurting right now.

I have a friend who asks, “What is mine to do today?” Yes! What is ours—as LOVE–to do today? Amen.