A Crash Course on Love: # Lesson 2
Love is power! Looking around today, the so-called 'love' seems to be governed by a sense of pleasing, a sense of nurturing the ego, a sense of give-and-take that works on the logic of business, gain and expectation! It is filled with insecurity, doubts, jealousy and exploitation...each of which is a varying degree of FEAR within the relationship of love that persons claim to be sharing! But there is no fear in love - perfect love casts out fear; because perfect love is founded on God. We can love, because we believe in the love that God has for us! We are called to love because God loves us! We will not have fear of anything...because God loves us and God is with us and repeats to us the words that Jesus says in the Gospel today: "Take heart, it is I; have no fear!" The presence of God with us, is a power. The assurance of God's love poured into our hearts is a power, with which we can take on the whole world! Love, the greatest of all powers, be with us!