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The Look of Love

16/7/2015

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Have you ever seen a look of pure love on someone’s face? There is just something wonderful, something captivating about it. I remember the look on my wife’s face the first time she held our first grandchild. She was radiant with love. I see it when I meet couples to discuss their wedding plans and they tell me the story of how they first met. I’ve seen it on the faces of proud parents and on children when they see someone that they love come into the room. It is a beautiful thing to witness. This week I have started reading a new book during my quiet time in the mornings, ‘May I Have This Dance?’ by Joyce Rupp. In it, she describes what contemplation is. Contemplation is the prayer of quiet in which we are at home with God. We do not need words. We can be content simply to look upon God and to have God look upon us with love.

What an amazing thought! God looking upon us with love. That look of wonder, tenderness, pride, radiant pure love is directed at us, each one of us. The God who created us, and saw that the creation ‘was good’, looks at each one of us with love. I invite you to close your eyes for a moment and just imagine being bathed in that divine love, touching you like warm sunshine. Feel that warmth reaching all the way inside of you, lighting your inner most self. Imagine it caressing your spirit and filling your heart. It even penetrates those aspects of ourselves that we do not like, or hide from, or are ashamed of. As we let the love of God flow into us, we become channels for it to flow out to others.

Couples argue, children and parents fight, and yet that look of love remains and shows itself in moments throughout life. Our relationship with God is like that too. We may be angry with God, or do things that cause us to turn away from living in God’s fullness. We may sometimes feel that God has abandoned us, or stopped listening to our prayers. Yet, the love that God has for us remains. God continues to look at us with love, even when sometimes we can’t feel it, or don’t believe it. This week I invite you to be still in those idle moments of life – whilst you are waiting for the kettle to boil or for the computer to close down. In that moment, just close your eyes and say to yourself “God is looking at me with love.” Imagine the warmth of that love filling your body. You may want to try it if the day is tough or frustrating and you just need to take a break. Take a moment to be ‘at home with God’ and feel that divine love touching your tense muscles and frayed nerves. When we are prepared to let the love of God in, it will be easier for us to love ourselves and radiate the love of God out to others. 
God is looking at you with love.  Right now.

God bless,

Cecilia

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