A Hidden God of Love
The God of the mystics is not the God of the philosophers, not the God who sits in heaven watching over creation in judgment. Rather it is the hidden God who pours out his love for the beloved, a God who lets go of being God to be God for us. Being in relationship with this God of outpouring love does not insulate us from destruction or calamity. We are not exempt from the sufferings of life. On the contrary, the one who enters into the wild love of God—for divine love is not neat, logical, and orderly—enters in the unknown forces of the heart. Deep within us God dwells as fire, turbulent wind, a raging ocean of power and yet a deep silence of stillness. God is all of these because divine love is dynamic, active, generative, infinite, and good. God is the fullness of everything that lives, moves, and has being. To enter the human heart is to enter into God unafraid to risk the unknown or death itself, since “love is stronger than death.” God’s weakness in love enkindles the strength of humanity.
—from the book Compassion: Living in the Spirit of St. Francis
by Ilia Delio, OSF
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