About a thousand things a word and words can say. And one could even delve into a form of verse if one should wish. And when one must send a word or two that strings together into sense so one can meet a quota self-imposed from week to week and month to month -- well, then, one will do so, or not.
This matter of doing or not, choosing or giving way, persevering while wondering if it matters, walking in a world where wisdom is exception rather than rule -- this journey, never done, is fraught with trials and unknowns, and only faith wins the day, or one should say love, which is deeper, per St. Paul.
Without faith one never steps out. What does love have to do with it, to be greater? Perhaps love is greater because it makes it worth it, says it is worth it, gives the right genesis or reason. Love answers the reason why, but so does faith. Faith pushes one forward but love is a deeper reason.
In real life language what does this mean? I get up and face the day because I believe life makes sense and at its core is still good. This is faith. The greatest is love. How so? Perhaps because it is love that proves faith, gives it substance. WHY is life worth living? WHY is there good in the world? Because of love – the love of God which he shares with us and dares us to learn and live.
Now abides faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love. Without love there is nothing, for love is the fullest expression of God: love between and among the eternal Trinity, love that gave birth to all creation, love that makes all possible. Without it there is no faith; without it there is nothing.
I wonder if that is true. Enough to feed the soul today and give the mind a happy journey.
My Psalm for the day can close this. “He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
Faith says it is so. Love makes it possible.
“The greatest of these is love.”
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