Love Letter
"The Bible is a letter from Almighty God to His creatures," wrote Pope St. Gregory. What a missive! The length of it, the poetry, the repeated declarations of total and absolute LOVE. " I have loved you with an everlasting love... I am constant in My affection for you." (Jeremiah 31:3) " Though the mountains leave their place and the hills be shaken, My love shall never leave you." (Isaiah 54:10) " My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one shall snatch them out of my hand." (John 10:27-28) I can turn page after page of Scripture and find such love. Love that would suffer and die for me, declaring itself over and over and over - a definite sign of not at all secret Love.... from The Cloistered Heart Samuel Melton Fisher painting