Make Your Home in My Love: Live in My Joy

Are you living as Gods burning bush without being consumed? Or might you be headed toward burnout?We will rediscover the blessing of this mutual love relationship with God overflowing to others as Gods sheer gift. Could it be that the first and greatest commandment is for our greatest joy and not some mysterious burden to fulfill?One metaphor is the vine and the branches from John 15:1-11. Jesus is the vine and we are the branches; apart from the vine the branch can do nothing. God wants to be our supply our source in an intimate encounter of the finite with the infinite.God was the source for these heroes of faith: Augustine of Hippo Bernard of Clairvaux Catherine of Siena Ignatius of Loyola John Calvin and Teresa of Avila. Using a descriptive process called the Classic Three Ways including the purgative (letting go) illuminative (seeing with the heart) and unitive (intimacy) dating back to around 500 CE we now add a fourth way the unitive/active (the dance). From that dance of mutual love ministry overflows. We do it together; it is participatory humankind following Gods lead. Its not a formula. Its our living God!