Taking The Risk of Engagement:

To the degree i risk engagement in Love, i and others will be made more whole; to the degree i hold back my heart, it and the other’s shrinks. Love calls forth true identity in all directions. We know something—art or people, or cities and nations- to the degree we risk engaging ourselves in Love for and with them. That’s also how and the degree to which we are healed and become healers of others.

Take the risk of depth engagement today! Why not! We are all worth it, in the end. And either way, we will meet God as we engage in Love, for as St John told us, God is Love. And Love is always where God is. This is one reason we are commanded to love the strangers, orphans and widows, and weak. It’s for our own good to do so.

To love your enemy is also to transform them and yourself. Love calls forth identity on both sides. Love always works in all directions. Part of the reason to love the “stranger” is to know ourselves! This is why both Jews and Christians were so adamant about this command—originally, of course, all Christians would have been the strangers intended!

We know one another, to the degree we engage in the relationship. That’s true with God and others. Love is not osmosis, it is active risk pursuit of Loving other to know them, especially those with the least Love extended towards them. I was a stranger and you let me “in”! Let’s let one another “in”! It’s for our own good as well to bless one another. For, it places us in the old Way-the position of Grace.