Love Comes Down

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This morning I was reminiscing about my recent opportunities to visit and reconnect with good friends of many years.  One of my friends told me during our visit that I use the word “beautiful” a lot.  My interior response was, “What a compliment!”  Life IS BEAUTIFUL – if we only have the eyes to see.

As I reflected on the beauty of life this morning, I happened to also be listening to the song “Love Comes Down” by Matt Maher and was touched in particular by these lyrics of the song:

“Isn’t it BEAUTIFUL!  isn’t it marvelous!  The God of the Universe, He became one of us.  We cry out and then, LOVE comes down again.  Hope is found in Him!  Alleluia!” (Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beAXbgFP3Wg to hear this song along with the lyrics (ignore the grammatical errors!)

I have so much for which to be GRATEFUL.  God LOVES me; He REALLY DOES!  And He LOVES YOU.  There are moments in life of TRUE JOY, when we recognize the beauty of God and the human heart infused with the LOVE of GOD!  We are truly beautiful in His sight!  Why?  Because we’re great?  If we are, it is due to Him.  This is the BEAUTIFUL LOVE of the Father for His children.  He infuses our souls with beauty and the ability to share the beauty of LOVE, if only we choose to participate.  Love is Love only if accompanied by the true gift of self.  This is not a half-hearted surrendering of our time or incidentals; we are to give our very being.  This is the quest in which we are all invited to partake!  What a beautiful life:  to give ourselves in FREEDOM, to choose to see the GOOD, to see LOVE, to see the BEAUTY of the image of God carried in the soul of each person rather than seeing the negative, the failures, selfishness.  And even if we do fail, to know that LOVE will continue to descend into our brokenness when we cry out, and will heal us so that beauty, love, and goodness can again have the opportunity to emanate from our souls!  This cycle will never stop, but will continue even into eternity – the eternal gift of self that is called LOVE.  This is the love of the Trinity: of the Father for the Son, the Son for the Father, made fruitful in the person of the Holy Spirit.  How BEAUTIFUL!  Alleluia!