The Renovating Reverend

I recently read a quote from novelist Ursula K. Le Guin about the nature of love. She said that love is not a static thing, like a stone. It’s more like bread, which has to be made, and be made new every day. I like this description of love, because it recognizes that, just like life, love is dynamic. Nothing in our world can stay exactly the same for very long, so love must change, as well. And, like bread, love is one of the basic things that sustain life, that make it worth living.

So, what if we stopped thinking of God’s love as some moldy, old thing from the distant past, and started to consider how God’s love, eternal and expansive as we may consider it, must be dynamic, as well? Would that change the way we view God or experience God? Could that help us recognize God’s love as a daily, sustaining experience?

God’s love: The dynamic bread of life, remade fresh for you, every day.