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Adam lived only after You breathed Your own life into him - from the first instant, man partakes of Your Divine Life. It is no merely natural life You gave us; we are something more than beasts.
Christ is first, and in anticipation of His assuming flesh and blood, we are, from the start, elevated above every other earthly creature.
And because of this dignity, because of this fact that we are made in Your image and made to share in Your Trinitarian life of Love, we must be made FREE. Because love is a free union, not a forced association or worse, a bondage.
You love us so much that You gave us the freedom to reject You.
You give Yourself to us (in the breath of life, the life of grace, the kiss of suffering) even as You give us the freedom to reject You.
Only Love could allow for that possibility.
Adam lived only after You breathed Your own life into him - from the first instant, man partakes of Your Divine Life. It is no merely natural life You gave us; we are something more than beasts.
Christ is first, and in anticipation of His assuming flesh and blood, we are, from the start, elevated above every other earthly creature.
And because of this dignity, because of this fact that we are made in Your image and made to share in Your Trinitarian life of Love, we must be made FREE. Because love is a free union, not a forced association or worse, a bondage.
You love us so much that You gave us the freedom to reject You.
You give Yourself to us (in the breath of life, the life of grace, the kiss of suffering) even as You give us the freedom to reject You.
Only Love could allow for that possibility.
posted by KathrynTherese at 6:07 PM
2 Comments:
Amen. For some reason, this has made me think again of how astonishing must be our loved ones' lives, now, who have passed on from here to where they were Awaited. What dignity, what happiness, what wholeness must be theirs. They are in full flower, forever. I like that thought.. I cannot imagine what it's like to live entirely from Love.
PS This post, too, is beautiful.
:-)
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