Finally Able to Love Others

Finally Able to Love Others Sue Monk Kidd One of the misconceptions about journeying to a deeper intimacy with God is that we don't need other people. We may want to get wrapped up in the coziness of "me and God." But of course this is a perverted spirituality and doomed from the outset. One of the worst illusions...would be to try to find God by barricading yourself inside your own soul. As we wake to God's love and presence in our lives, we actually become more capable of loving others. It's as if our hearts are somehow being enlarged. It means that as we open ourselves to God's love, journeying deeper into intimacy, we become more able to love ourselves. And when we love ourselves, we are finally able (and sometimes for the first time in our lives) to love others--not with a what's-in-it-for-me love, but with the strong, authentic, wear and tear love Christ showed us. Source: God's Joyful Surprise Read more and add your thoughts at inward/outward This message is a daily service of inward/outward. Was this message forwarded to you? Click here to sign up. No longer interested in receiving these readings? Click here to unsubscribe. Having trouble unsubscribing? Email Church of the Saviour Office: churchofthesaviour.office@gmail.com