Thought for today - 09/29/2012

CREATED OUT OF LOVE FOR LOVE
"God is love. Jesus revealed greater insight into the mystery of God who is relationship — perfect, loving relationship between Father, Son, and Spirit existing eternally. How else could God be love, since love requires an object — other persons to love? There's only one God, not three, but God at the center of his Being exists in loving relationship. As a husband and wife in a healthy, loving relationship discover, love creates children to invite into relationship, and in so doing love expands. God created us out of love and for love, inviting us into his Divine Community of ever-expanding love. All the prophets who wrote thousands of years before Jesus made it clear that loving relationship is God's motive for creating us."
- John Burke, Soul Revolution: How Imperfect People Become All God Intended