Boundless Compassion

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This Jesuit priest knows the God I put my faith in, but have been very hard-pressed to find evidence of in today's Christian churches and their followers and had started to think I was crazy to believe in.

A God whose joy in us "is a foreigner to disappointment and disapproval". A joy that "doesn't know what we're talking about when we focus on the restriction of not measuring up".

A God who is not about judgment or complicated schemes for salvation. A God who, like any conscientious parent, is so proud and so full of love for His children, that He is blinded to everything but their innate beauty and loves them just as they are.

A God so limitless, so boundless, our small-minded attempts to envision, describe him only end up unfairly subscribing him and binding him to our own small-minded fears, jealousies, and insecurities.

We do not have to do anything to gain God's love, other than realize that we are already standing in it. And once we realize we are standing it, the only thing we must do then is help others realize the same Truth.

This means faithfully, endlessly, without hope of success even, linking our lives to those needing to be shown this Love the most - the gang members, the outcasts, the seemingly unlovable.

Boundless compassion.

Freely received.  Freely given.

This is Salvation.