Perfect love
Dear Editor,
You may not be an angel, but Jesus thinks you worth his adversities. You may not be a saint, yet for you he accepted his pains. You may think that you’re not perfect, yet he thinks you deserve dying for.
True love came to full bloom in spring with the emergence of suffering, so that others may find peace, and with the emptying of self, so that others may be filled. For in Jesus true love evolved from the customary order of loving your friends and neighbours (Leviticus 19:18) into the pure and new realm of loving your enemies and praying for those persecuting you (Mathew 5:44).
With Jesus, love was no longer constricted by the measure of strict justice, but by the forgiving of those who slaps and offends you seven times seven (Luke 23:34). With spring came renewed life as one perfect man, Jesus, begins cancelling the darkness cast by another perfect man, Adam — almost like the perfect balance of night and day during the spring equinox.
Love’s revolution begins in spring with Jesus hanging by nails and tearing flesh, despising death by sinful decree in order that you and I may be.
Homer Sylvester
h2sylvester@gmail.com