This day, I offer thee a challenge. Below is a quote which I could almost guarantee a great number of you will disagree with. But anyone can disagree. I’m interested in why you disagree, which is a much more difficult question. Don’t leave your thoughts here (unless you really want to), read the whole post and comment over at The Crowded Handbasket.
Loving God is something different than loving a person and so, it is not a personal love. Loving God is acting in response to the Resurrection by loving others and that is how we in turn love God. When God comes to me, shakes my hand, and cares to sit down and get to know me and I God, on a personal level, my idea of the love of God will become more than an idea, but a personal engagement with a being. Until then, love of God is a once removed response to God by loving my neighbor, who I can physically and actually love. And perhaps God can love me through that