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Walking in Love through the Darkness

There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done. Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time — it’s easy. All you need is love. The Beatles

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is (just) to love and be loved in return Moulin Rouge

Immerse your soul in love Radiohead

Love is a temple, Love the higher law, When all you got is hurt, One love U2

Hell is the suffering of being no longer able to love Dostoevsky

When I love God I love the beauty of bodies, the rhythm of movements, the shining of eyes, the embraces, the feelings, the scents, the sounds of all this protean creation. When I love you, my God, I want to embrace it all, for I love you with all my senses in the creations of your love. In all the things that encounter me, you are waiting for me. Jürgen Moltmann

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. . . God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. John

Love is treasuring the otherness of the other . . . in relational encounter

Love comes as a response to the presence of the other. As that spark across the gaps happens more often, the connection deepens and the trust grows—a gradual and painful process, to be sure, as together we discover and explore our patterns of vulnerability and invulnerability, our hopes and fears. Still, the healing connection is deepened and nourished as I bare my wounds and let my frightened self find voice, feel heard, be seen, and be consoled. That is the beginning of the miracle of love: being open to another, guards down, and—no questions asked, no demands, no judgments— being respected, received, affirmed, and blessed. To show oneself as the person we are—wounded, blemished, hurting, longing—and to feel welcomed and accepted is to experience grace.

FAITH Anchors us in the Story LOVE LOVE Animates us in Encounter Animates us in Encounter HOPE Orients us to New Creation Orients us to New Creation

How do we walk in the Darkness? 1. Faith enables us to see the goodness of God in the face of Jesus 2. Hope orients us to the continual restoration of relationship, and its fulfilment in the resurrection 3. Love gives us an authentic and rich taste of New Creation now

Walking in Love through the Darkness