"For in Man's Soul is His very dwelling; and the highest light and the brightest shining of the City is the glorious love of our Lord, as to my sight."
Julian of Norwich (ch. 67)
We are loved like we can't even imagine. We are loved at every moment. We are wrapped in a tender embrace at continually. We are bathed in acceptance and belonging and security and we are absolutely safe and secure, known and understood, celebrated and adored, by this love that is beyond anything we have ever known. It is love that makes all the difference. It is His love that heals our hearts, dispels our shame, melts our defenses, dissolved our strife, and brings rest to our souls. We have found that the place we were most longing for, that place of ultimate belonging and acceptance and love, is inside of us, holding us tight for always! He always has been holding us here in love, and He always will be. The light of our life is God's presence of pure love, for God who IS Love is in us living here with us in union forever.
Our soul, our humanity, is God's home, the place He chose to dwell above all other places. It is His glorious and dazzling kingdom, full of the brightness of His glory and honor. And the brightest and most glorious light shining in this inner kingdom of human hearts is His love! Nothing shines brighter. His love for us is the most splendid, beautiful, radiant and shining thing inside us. His love for us can't be totally grasped it is so amazing. It can't truly be contained and so it spills forth from us in marvelous rays and colorful prisms of light.We are filled to the full with God's love for us, and it spills over and out from us like a fountain of endless liquid light and grace. We are light in the Lord, and the light we are lit up by is His unconditional, never-ending, infinite and all-embracing love. We can say: "I am a city set on a hill, a light for all the world to see. I shine with the light of love, which is God Himself shining in me. I spread love everywhere, all around. I am the loving expression of God on this earth. I naturally manifest that love of God. I love myself and others with the love of God."
"I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living within you as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love; and may you be able to feel and understand, as all God’s children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. And so at last you will be filled up with God himself."
Ephesians 3:17-19 (TLB)
"Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven."
Matthew 5:14-16 (MSG)
A Prayer: I'm filled full of You, O God, filled full of Love. Let Your love shine forth from me to love all those around me.