Radical love.
I was doing a workout today with Autumn Calabrese and the term, radical self love came up. It stopped me dead in my tracks. Do I radically love myself? Scripture says, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your soul. And then add to that, love others as you love yourself. But what does this look like in real time? In real, day to day, moment to moment life? In this journey of faith , what I have come to know is that I can’t love others well if I don’t love myself. I can’t love myself well if I don’t know radical love in the One whom radically loves me and stay vitally connected to this love. Radical love is found at the foundation of our faith in what Christ did thousands of years ago on the cross. It was him paying a love debt that I could never pay because of the imperfect condition of humanity. We see it everyday. I don’t have to look too far to see imperfections in myself and in others. I could never meet loves s...