Extravagant Love
There seems to be a limit to everything. I so quickly get to the bottom of the ice cream container and my checking account responds quite predictably to the purchases I make. I had a hospice client who would almost repetitively say “There’s a limit to it!” when describing the various ways in which her body was giving out.
Our bodies also seem to be limited, only lasting a certain period of time.
But is there truly a limit to everything? Is there a limit to love?
I know many people, myself included, that have been stomped on by love, shaped by people in their lives who have believed there was a limit to love. Parents who believed showing too much love would spoil their children, and more often parents, boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands and wives that felt limited in their own abililty to give and receive love.
But there is no limit.
The scripture I’ll be preaching this week describes Mary Magdeline using precious aromatic oils to annoint the feet of Jesus while Judas Ascariot watches on saying, basically, “how wasteful!”
There is nothing wasteful about showing love. It’s the only thing that has no limit.
March 17 2010 08:23 am | Eternal Life and Love
Nancy on 17 Mar 2010 at 11:00 am #
That’s a beautiful image. Where is it from?
Rev. Sage Currie on 20 Mar 2010 at 1:43 pm #
I found it on a blog for the Crystal Cathedral.
Emily on 02 Jun 2010 at 9:15 pm #
I found it on a blog for the Crystal Cathedral.
Amy on 05 Jun 2010 at 5:48 pm #
That’s a beautiful image. Where is it from?