THE LIBRARY OF LOVE [T, 6-9-20]

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith & Life for the Years of Winter

THE LIBRARY OF LOVE                   [T, 6-9-20]

John Wesley taught that the goal of Christian life is perfection in love. I believe that. Not perfection in belief or morality or civility or knowledge. Those kinds of perfection are not available to humans.  But, I believe, perfection in love is, if not possible, at least…

I shall say it again:

Perfection in love

is not just the goal

but the method

each moment a stone

either of stumbling

or of creation

building up the library

of love, shelves bulging

with volumes

to be shared

John Robert McFarland

I read in Susan Orlean’s The Library Book that there is a tribe—I can’t remember where—that says, when one of its members dies: His library has burned.