As long as I am here, I will continue to grow and change and learn. I once thought that the first Corinthians verse was about love between a husband and wife. It’s often read aloud at weddings and speaks clearly about how you successfully love your spouse, with patience and kindness, without self-seeking and anger.
This year I’ve been engaged in a study of The Course in Miracles. My instructor reads the lessons daily to me (and others) using Voxer. She offers a meditation practice as well. The process of growth has been slow and gradual, hardly even noticeable if you know me. The language is what is changing. My instructor has changed the word God to the word Love. This seems small and insignificant, like a little nudge to my thinking.
I have attended church all my life. I’ve heard the words of the Bible over and over. Yet changing God from a person-like thing to an emotion has had profound effects on my thoughts. When God is with us, Love is with us.
We are called to be Love to one another. To be patient and kind in all that we do. Not to envy or boast or look out for ourselves. This is a call to service. God is Love. Love is God. How simple! How true!
I find peace in the knowledge that God has already given me everything I need to be successful. Love. It really is all we need. Love is everything. Love is enough.
Reflections on the Teche 
“Love is everything. Love is enough.” I am going to carry these thoughts into my day, Margaret. Perhaps, these thoughts will guide me to other holy nudges, as Ramona calls them. I wonder if today is the day that your new addition who is safely cuddled in his/her mother’s womb will nudge her to bring him/her into this world. Peace to you, Margaret.
Love! I feel about my meditation practice the way you feel about this course. Change is imperceptible in some ways, but so profound in others! Thank you for sharing, Margaret. xo
The Bible said it first: God is Love! Thanks for your post! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
Like Carol, I’m hoping that your little one will be nudged out of the nest soon! We’ll be watching for the news.
I like how your course has nudged you to new growth through language, just a small nudge to your thinking through this daily practice.
Margaret: Thanks so much for this post. I like the idea of exchanging the word “God” for “Love” in this verse. And I like to toy with the idea that… maybe “God” is a verb?
Appreciations for this walk with you Margaret.
And wishes to for the safe arrival of your newborn Grand.
LOVE!