The Beginning

Live. Life. Loved.

The Lord your God, in the midst of you is mighty.

He will save.

He will rejoice over you with joy.

He will rest in His love.

He will joy over you with singing.                            -Zephaniah 3:17

Every couple weeks, I change my contacts. When I forget, I can tell. But the other day a funny thing happened. I HAD just changed them. But something was off. I wasn’t seeing clearly. I was getting headaches. Things were distorted. I couldn’t focus. So, I change my contacts again, just to find out if that would change anything.

It changed everything.

Changed lenses,

Changes perspective.

What was blurry and hard to see,

Was now clearly in focus.

So I bless you to change the lens, the perspective you live life from.

I bless you to:

Live.

Life.

Loved.

I bless you to choose “to live life from the love of the Beloved in you. Choose against whatever distracts you, confuses you and puts in jeopardy the life of the Beloved in you. I bless you to choose to live from the loving heart of your Father.” (Sylvia Gunter, You are Blessed in the Names of God #13)

What is the greatest truth? When asked to sum up his life’s work and theology in a simple statement, the famous theologian Karl Barth replied, “Jesus loves me, this I know.” That was the greatest truth. As I have changed perspective and continue to live life from that different lens and focus, live from that place of being perfectly loved, I understand now why the disciple John described himself that way. The One whom Jesus loved.