Resting in the Beloved
In the monastery of the Incarnation in Avila, Teresa of Avila once described prayer not as speaking to God but as "being with the One...
This is tradition perspectives on love, drawing on 1 John 4:7-8.
In the monastery of the Incarnation in Avila, Teresa of Avila once described prayer not as speaking to God but as "being with the One we know loves us." She understood what the apostle John meant when he wrote, "God is love." Not that God possesses love or distributes it — God is love, the way fire is heat, the way the ocean is wet.…
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