The source of all life

 

The Source of All Life. 

I read this morning how Christ was stripped of everything- except love and Love Always Forgives. Reflecting upon 30 years of caring for my wife, in a song, last night, I have some idea of the cost.

 

 Thirty years is a long time. We are much older now, we have been discussing recently how we would like to spend the next thirty years: by then we will be quite elderly.

 

I have some tiny idea of what it is to labour for a long time, yet be crucified by the 

system.

 

Stripped of everything except love; that is the power of the Cross, the source of all 

life.

If you want to speak of the Cross with authenticity then you have to have suffered 

great pain and injustice.

 

You have to have felt or been physically, emotionally, mentally broken and 

overwhelmed by the weight of your brokenness and the extreme agony intrinsically 

born within it.

 

If you want to know the truth of the Cross and many speak of it without such 

knowledge, you must enter profoundly into the heart of suffering and there, beyond 

your utterly damaged being, find love.

 

This is a profound surprise and strength :that in the centre of such destruction on 

every level, still you exist in a huge and vast sense beyond the physical boundary of 

your body.

You exist and more than this, God is present with you and loves you. His Mercy 

knows no bounds. His love is everywhere, huge, vast and unmistakably with you. His 

love heals, saves, is. And you cannot stay a victim in this knowledge. You cannot be 

powerless, for you are one with Him and this oneness breaks open all untruth, 

injustice, wrongness, sin and restores light and goodness and brings profound 

healing and hope. Amen