I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
As I have loved you...
With tenderness
With grittiness
With challenge
With encounter
With knowledge
With reality
With insight
With understanding
From the inside out
Not superficially
but getting under the skin
Piercing the tidy (or untidy) exterior
to get to the heart
That kind of love
takes work.
It invites vulnerability.
It does not happen from a distance
It does not come
from assumptions
or suppositions
but from the kind of understanding
only grasped
when space and time
have been invested
that make encounter a reality
and love a possibility
Love one another as I have loved you...
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