I love you.
God and love are usually synonymous within religious circles. I don't know if I've ever seen a book, poem, speech, essay, credo, maxim, or phrase about God that didn't either directly say or at least imply God's love. God loves all of us, from the wicked to the willing, from the slave to the sadist. He welcomes rapist, poet, lover and philosopher. He understands and knows all of us. He sees all. He loves all, for all is in His form, in His name, living and dying by His timetable. He is, well, God, Godding it up with as much Godliness as he has, which is a surprisingly large amount of Godliness. And he loves: everything I've ever read about him can always be followed back to that simple and awe inspiring knowledge: He loves us. He doesn't care who you are, but only that you are His child. You may stray away from the flock, but you are still his sheep, and he is only saddened that you cannot share Heaven with him. He loves you, and accepts you, and has always done so.
It's so touching to read a passage devoted to God's love and how we see it. It's everywhere, and to follow it is natural, and to stray is impossible. It's hard for people to comprehend our own love. Love between people is as beautiful as it can be frightening. We cross oceans out of love, and we also raze buildings to the ground because of it. Love can make us stay up at night, staring at the stucco and trying desperately to go to sleep, if only to be rested to see her tomorrow. Love makes us lose our cool. Love makes us dig scratches into their backs. Love makes us stare. Love makes us freak out. There are millions of things the simple explosion of love can do to people. We don't know how it works. We can't honestly say we understand it. We can only embrace it, and feel its maddening tug pull us along through life.
God's love: everything stated above, multiplied by infinity.
Crazy @#$%, right?
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4 comments:
That's so true about gods love being mentioned in so many different writings. Gods love is infinite for everybody in this world. I think sometimes people don't fully appreciate that. His love is like the love of parents for their children. Great insight and blog, enjoyed it.
solid blog I too enjoyed this reading. I feel like it goes with out saying, but this seems as a strong respons to the, "Ilsam is hate" crowd.
Cameron,
Your blog sounds like the makings of a great song for your garage band: "Love makes..."
You definitely have a way with words... I especially liked when you wrote, "love is as beautiful is as it is frightening"... true dat.
And you are right that God and love are regular themes in religion. I don't know if you felt the same way, but I was kind of surprised to see that love was much more prominent in the Islam readings we were assigned, than it's been in the previous religions' reading selections.
I would bet if all the people who haven't had the opportunity to take a course such as ours and don't understand what Islam is all about, read these selections about God and love, that they would have a very different perspective on Islam.
I like how you explained Gods love not stopping if you stray. I had never thought about God being sad by anything I have done. Nice blog
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