The Sun Rose Today
And here is what she said
The Sun rose today. Here is what she said.
Now more than ever is when Love is called on. These are the times when Love is most needed and most effective. Loving only when justice, truth, and wisdom are in power is merely a confirmation of Love’s existence. Loving when cruelty, violence, and vulgarity are in power is an exercise of Love’s power.
Now is when we are being called on to live out our Imago Dei and extend grace, mercy, and love to those who seek to harm, to control, to destroy. May those who seek to extinguish Love galvanize the divine defiance of Love in us. They can no more extinguish the sun and stop her from rising.
The rising sun is the ultimate display of divine defiance in a world where the very creatures that she warms and nourishes often refuse to acknowledge her presence. Choosing Love when it’s convenient and feels good is a self-affirming exercise. Choosing Love when it’s inconvenient and undeserved is a self-sacrificing act of sacred rebellion.
The sun rises. It isn’t that Love will prevail. Love prevails. We can choose to justifiably rage and blame and despise the selfish forces that oppose Love. And still she warms. We can lash back and use similar selfish means to justify a righteous end that we seek. And still she nourishes. We can turn our backs and deny its existence. And still she radiates.
Or, we can choose to surrender to the counter-intuitive power of Love’s unconditional grace. The sun rises on all without regard to whether we deserve to be warmed and nourished and blessed with beauty. To question “Why?” only hinders our ability to fully participate in the daily miracle of being alive at such a time as this.
Now, more than ever, let us be the Light and let us choose Love. Love will prevail and Love does prevail. Love expands and shapes. Love tenderizes and persists. Love surrenders and defies. Love is eternal and now. Love is specific and unconditional. Love prevails. Love is God in us.
Be the Light. Choose Love.
I love this: "Choosing Love when it’s inconvenient and undeserved is a self-sacrificing act of sacred rebellion." I'm a child of the 60s when most of us considered ourselves to be rebels. Now, in my 70s, there is still time to be a sacred rebel. Thanks for posting this, Robyn.
Thank you for sharing this today. Every word is true and though "counter-intuitive" it reverses the negative spiral and dark vortex of evil begetting evil. So thank you kindly for shining a light into the darkness of human foibiles and futility. Peace be with you and your readers.