I’ve added another short meditation on the Gospel of John (the one from which I have been quoting in my classes). It is a reflection on the mystery of the “name” that each of us bears uniquely before God: the name of beloved. As it was said of Mary, so the same is true for us: I am one who has been, is, and always will be loved by God.

My Name is “Beloved”

Categories: Meditations

Joshua

I know that your heart yearns, little one, to create something beautiful, a testament of love, a reflection, in the dimness of this world, of the radiant beauty of my own eternal light. I know the longing within to give birth without, the desire to create, sharing in eternal creativity. I want you to know, beloved, and to feel that the greatest masterpiece which I desire for you is the unspeakable beauty which is you yourself. You, the one whom I infinitely love, are the icon, transparent to my shining glory, enfolded in my grace, a blaze of fiery light bursting through the eyes, a figure whose countenance, whose heart, whose life is a reflection of the life, the heart, the face which is my own.