Contemplative Worship Team - July 31, 2022
Week 8
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. Thomas Merton
Scripture References: 1 Corinthians 12:31, 1 Corinthians 13:1-8
From Series: "Boundless Love"
The love of God . . . is a bottomless, boundless, endless ocean, that swallows up our finitude in its infinite depths, that buries all our shallowness, that ever flows in its tidal ebb, and with its limitless life supplies all our needs, until it has transformed its beloved objects into its own image according to our creature-capacities, until it has washed all guilt out of us, and all healing into us; until it has freed us from all death and suffering, and raised us into itself as a portion of the Divine. Then, this Divine Love will be to us, a well of mercy, an infinite ocean of joy and beauty, where we will live, and bathe, and dive to the praise of the beauty of Divine love to the endless depths of all eternity. Anne Dutton (18th century)
