OH THAT YOU WOULD KNOW

The Heights, Depths and Breadth of His Love This is lent for Christians. To some this means giving up something- my mother always gives up watermelon (because it's never in season)- but really, it's not a joke. It's serious. With prayer, fasting, and generosity of heart giving till it hurts we declare that all we are and have is from God, belongs to God and we are his servants, butlers and handmaidens to His Love. Everything is Love- Love can want to spare you suffering and rapture you off early-and if Love wants to do that I say let it- or Love can want you to just be His Servant in humility with whatever gifts he gives you. If you are old enough (I can brag half a century) you remember well when there were no laptops, netbooks, tablets, wireless, 3G, 4G, cell phones or blackberries. NONE. I wrote my high school papers on a clunky old IBM typewriter and whited out with liquid 'white out' when I made a mistake or typed over white "correction paper" to masque the mistake. I could not have imagined the day when I could through a thing called a "blog" transmit to thousands of people a day the same message instantaneously. Imagine that there is higher intelligence, but more to the point, higher Love, powerful LOVE, a LOVE that saves you from the earthly limits and constraints of petty earthly bitterness, revenges, vengeance, spites and ugliness, a love that is a FIRE, a love on fire for you with a heart burning so deep that it reduced its being to a presence just like you so it could try to speak to you to take your sins upon himself so you could transcend the earth's evil. This kind of love is no respecter of petty man made rules or boundaries. You cannot contain Fire in a wood box. It is no respecter of ego aggrandizement at the expense of another's heart, it is no elevator of social status for its own sake. It is the Love that raises the dead, feeds the starving, raises the dignity and provides for the Poor, heals the sick, frees the oppressed, empowers the outcast and brings them into belonging, and is everlasting into the next dimension of eternity. This is the deep deep Love of Jesus. It creates Life out of nothing. It dissolves pain into Joy. It kisses the leper, opens the eyes of the blind, and walks even with people who don't recognize him to lead them to safety and peace. How does he do all this? How do you just simply hit an "app" and discover a world of knowledge at your fingertips? How does Jesus 'know'? What frequency is your brain-emotional life sending to heaven in your thoughts and prayers? Ask and it shall be given to you. Knock and the door shall be opened for you. This is lent- time to run your computer through the 'Disk Clean' to 'create in me a clean heart oh God' and the 'Defrag' so your systems are aligned in good working order to receive and send. He is there, he is listening, he Loves you more than you can imagine or conceive. All life, all breath, all being has its source in Him.