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Thought For The Week

‘‘God’s love doesn’t discriminate, it simply embraces everything. Like the sun it doesn’t shine selectively, shedding its warmth on vegetables because they are good and refusing its warmth on the weeds because they are bad. It just shines on everything and irrespective of its condition, receives its warmth.’ ~Ronald Rolheiser

We know all about sunshine this past week. There have been endless hours of hot sunshine each day. The shade under a tree or a room at home not facing the direct sunlight has been so welcome. There is no adequate language to describe God, but if we start using the language of love then we at least can make a start. Like the sunshine, God’s love is simply everywhere.

A question sometimes asked is why bother to be good if God loves everyone the same and equally? To make a genuine effort to be good is something we have been taught from an early age. It means that love is always the priority. We aren’t loved because we are good, but we become good because we experience love.

The more love we experience the better it is for us, our family, our community and the world we live in. We do our best to grow in love, to nurture it, to share it, to celebrate it and to allow it to shape us into the wonderful person God created us to be. Sure enough, we sometimes stumble and sometimes fall embarrassingly.

Does this mean that we should abandon the road of love that guides us each day? Of course not. So today should be a day to begin to believe in you, to believe in God’s love for you and to believe that now is the time to start again, even after a stumble or fall in your life.

Thought For The Week is updated each Monday