To Love is to Be

We are created in the image of God, who is Love. To be like God, who is Love. Created by Love for Love. To love is what it is to be like God. To love is what it is to be human. To love is what it is to be. This is revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the Image of the Invisible God, in whom all the fullness of divinity dwells in bodily form, and in whom we are made complete and become partakers of the divine nature. At the Cross, we see that the Love of God is Self-Giving, Other-Centered, Cross-Shaped.

One day the Pharisees got together, and one of them, an expert in the Law of Moses, asked Jesus which is the greatest commandment. Jesus answered: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matthew 22:37-40).  

Everything in the world depends on Love — love for God and love for our neighbor — for God, the Creator of All Things, the Source of All Being, is Love. To turn away from God and one another is to turn away from Love. It is to turn inwardly upon ourselves — incurvatus in se — who cannot sustain our own being. And so it is a turn from being to non-being.

To Love is to Be. 
To Fail to Love is to Fail to Be. 
For God, Who is the Source 
of All Being, is Love.