A farmer placed a weathercock inscribed with the words “God is love” on the top of his barn. One day a traveller, stopped to look and with a smirk asked the farmer standing at the door: “Do you think that God’s love can change so lightly like the vane you have up there?” With a smile the farmer replied: “No my friend. That is meant to show that whichever way the wind blows, God is love.”

Many words have been used to describe God and the most popular one is love. No matter how many times we hear this, we are still slow and reluctant to fully believe what it means for us. Our horizons are limited in the sense that we know our own limits: our fragility, our worries and our fears. Because of our limitations we sense that God must have limits too.

But God’s love goes way beyond our limitations. In our 2nd reading that was used at Masses last Sunday St Paul has a lovely line: “How rich are the depths of God.” We live in a world that is often shallow. Nothing seems to have depth. While smartphones, apps and social media are useful, they often live in this shallow world.

We need depth and we are reminded beautifully that God is with us through every experience. God loves us even when we struggle to love. God loves us whichever way the wind blows. Nothing will ever change this.


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