Love (1 John 4:16)

Twenty- fourth Day of Advent

John tells us that God is love, so this meditation might just as well have come at the beginning of Advent, as at the end. Everything, especially Advent of course, begins with God, and so with love.

Who doesn’t love a little baby? Well, there was Herod of course, but he had serious trust issues. And no one moved over to make room in the inn, but they were visitors too, and a long way from home. And, anyway, they were there first. And then, I suppose, there must have been some back in Nazareth who were embarrassed that he was coming quite so soon. You really can’t go encouraging that sort of behaviour in young people.

Come to think of it, this love thing’s harder than it seems. But if, as John says, God is love, this Christmas thing, and Advent thing, and Easter thing, and everything is all about love. So I guess we really need to learn to love.

God is love.

Whoever lives in love lives in God,

and God in him.

1 John 4:16

Everything, even the universe itself, begins and ends with love.