Safe environment? What is that? Risk and uncertainty and the potential to be hurt emotionally or physically cannot be removed from our lives. There is no sterile/perfect environment that can provide us that certainty.
Love has morphed before my very eyes over the past few years into something radically different then how I had known it before. I'm learning to allow it to be...Him to be...the dangerously wild thing it/He is. This kinda describes Love to me these days...
"When there's all kinds of chaos
And everyone is walking lame
You don't even blink now, do you
Or even look away"
Richard Rohr has been traveling with me today. No, not physically, just in word. Love has a way of leaving us disarmed...no longer preoccupied with things like "What's this going to cost me?" "How can I get back in control of this situation?" "How does my self-image demand that I react to this?" all of those reactions will lead us into a stand off, a battle with the other who we sense poses a threat to us. Yet I'm coming to understand that Love never feels threatened because Love is not afraid.
No ones's personal chaos...no one's struggles or sins that leave them limping or even cause them to be a threat...can cause Love to blink or look away. And with no scolding and no condemnation, this Love is showing me that when I do something other than enter into those situations with the other...disarmed/undefended, there is something about Love that I'm not yet understanding, that there is a place somewhere inside me Love has not yet won. And as this dangerously wild Love continues to come more and more into view, I want nothing more than to go with it. And I'm becoming more and more convinced that Love never fails while all other options do.
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