Today is Martin Luther King Day. It should be a reminder how limited our love is and that love alone is not the answer. Love is not God. That is a point Lewis made. He said that if we make love a god we sow the seeds of hate. To love any one thing too strongly is an addiction. We set up walls around that love and fear losing it. However, we cannot put walls around God's love for us, nor walls around our love for others. I will never understand fundamentalist Christians who try to do so? How do they know whom God loves? Why can't they love anyone outside their ranks?What are they afraid of? One message of MLK's life is that there can be no love without justice and that justice is an expression of God's love for us, or agape. Justice and love both depend on God, something we believe in outside and above us, something greater than us and beyond our knowledge. A mystery.
Nort
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