The Love of God

To do this exercise using the video clip, you'll have to go to Evangelicals on the Ignatian Way blogsite.

However, here is the content of the post, minus the video.

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Here is a second exercise to help you connect with the deep, deep love of God for your life. It is another old hymn. I don't know all the details, but the core part of this hymn was found on a scrap piece of paper in the room of a person who had just died. The room of that person was in an Insane Asylum where he/she had been for many years.

I found myself wondering if the person was able to endure that condition for long years, because he/she had connected with the love of God in a sustaining way.

The love of God can be such an abstract idea for us. We can theologically dissect the idea and rationally assent to it... but not have much direct experience of God's love. Like the song from last week, you will find that this hymn is rich in metaphors that help us experience God's love. The video images provide concrete images.

Pay attention to what is speaking to you and what draws you deeper into the experience of God's love.

May you encounter the deep love of God for your life and perhaps spend time yourself, journaling, writing of your experience.

And here are the words:

The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell;

It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell.

The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave his son to win;

His erring child he reconciled, and pardoned from his sin.

Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made;

Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade.

To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry;

Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.

O love of God, how rich and pure, how measureless and strong;

It shall for evermore endure, the Saints’ and Angels’ song.