Love is Your True Self

The love in you—which is the Spirit in you—always somehow says yes. Love is not something you do; love is someone you are. It is your True Self. Love is where you came from and love is where you're going. It's not something you can buy. It's not something you can attain. It is the presence of God within you, called the Holy Spirit, who is uncreated grace.

You can't manufacture this by any right conduct. You can't make God love you one ounce more than God already loves you right now.

You can't.

You can go to church every day for the rest of your life. God isn't going to love you any more than God loves you right now. You cannot make God love you any less, either—not an ounce less. Do the most terrible thing—steal and pillage, cheat and lie—and God wouldn't love you less. You cannot change the Divine mind about you! The flow of divine love is constant, total, and 100 percent towards your life. God is for you.

We can't diminish God's love for us. What we can do, however, is learn how to believe it, receive it, trust it, allow it, and celebrate it, accepting Trinity's whirling invitation to join in the cosmic dance.

That's why all spirituality comes down to how you're doing life right now.

How you're doing right now is a microcosm of the whole of your life.

How you do anything is how you do everything.

Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation (London: SPCK, 2016), 193, slightly edited.