Mountains 🏔 “place and person where heaven and earth touch”
Bishop Michael Curry writes in , “Love is the Way; Holding on to Hope in Troubled Times.”
“There is something about mountains, the sheer majesty of their shape and size, rising out of the earth and yet seemingly greater than the earth, or even alien to it. Mountaintops cause the jaw to drop and the soul to wonder.
Ancient folk knew this strange quality. The Celts called mountain tops “thin places,” where heaven and earth seem to touch. As I see it, a “thin place” can be a moment or an experience as much as a place. It’s those times when your jaw drops and words don’t rise to the occasion. This world is touched by another. Human beings encounter the divine. We experience God.
The way of love is a commitment to seeking the good and well-being of others. When we truly do that, we are blessed. In fact, if we all make the commitment -to loving beyond our nationality, our ethnicity, our politics, our religion, or any other difference- we and the earth itself would be blessed.
Brothers! Siblings! Children of God! They are everywhere, in all disguises... they became witnesses to the power of love to lift us to the mountaintop. Their love changed his world and our world with it.
Love does that! We can’t live on the mountain top, but the mountain top can live in us.
When God, who is love, becomes our spiritual center of gravity, and love our moral compass, we live differently, regardless of what the world around us does. The world changes for the better, one life of the time. So don’t give up on love.
Listen to it.
Trust it.
Give into it.
Obey it.
Love can help and heal when nothing else can. Love can lift up and liberate when nothing else will. May God love you and bless you.
And may God hold us all in those all mighty hand of love.”
-Bishop Michael Curry, Love is the Way; Holding onto Hope in Troubled Times.
