{"id":103127,"date":"2021-06-16T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103127"},"modified":"2021-06-16T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:54:32","slug":"cc-samuel-wells-on-one-mans-question-in-one-group-on-one-particular-day-wheres-my-love-to-go-now-tell-me-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103127","title":{"rendered":"(CC) Samuel Wells on one man&#8217;s question in one group on one particular day&#8211;\u201cWhere\u2019s my love to go now?&#8230;Tell me That&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I took a risk, and said, gently, \u201cImagine eternity from God\u2019s point of view. Imagine God having all that love pent up like you have right now. But the difference is, God\u2019s got that love all pent up potentially forever. God\u2019s like you. God\u2019s thinking, \u2018Where\u2019s my love to go?\u2019 So God creates the universe. But God\u2019s got still more love to give. So God creates life, and makes humanity, and calls a special people. But that\u2019s still not enough. God\u2019s got yet more love to give. So God comes among us as a tiny baby. God\u2019s question \u2018Where is my love to go?\u2019 is perhaps the most important one of all time. Half the answer is the crea\u00adtion of the universe. The other half is the incarnation. On Christmas Day we find out why the universe was created. It was created for us to be the place where God\u2019s love could go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In case I hadn\u2019t made myself clear, I added one more suggestion. \u201cSo when you ask yourself, \u2018Where\u2019s my love to go?\u2019 you\u2019re getting an insight into the very heart of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has been about many things, but one above all: powerlessness. It\u2019s been an intensification of life\u2019s fragilities and limitations. We\u2019ve felt fearful, lonely, and disappointed. Where is our love to go? We\u2019ve not been getting an easy answer to this question. We\u2019re getting something else instead: the discovery of what it\u2019s like to be God, who asked the same question and came among us to complete the answer. What the pandemic\u2019s given us is an opportunity to dwell in the very heart of God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/faith-matters\/where-my-love-go\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(CC) Samuel Wells on 1 man&#39;s question in 1 group on one particular day <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/58bsAiN9HU\">https:\/\/t.co\/58bsAiN9HU<\/a> (CC BY-SA 3.0 Duke Chapel) &#39;\u201cLove,\u201d I said. \u201cIt\u2019s all abt love..Don\u2019t talk to me about love&#8230;How\u2019s that supposed 2 relate to me?\u201c Where\u2019s my love to go now?..Tell me That&quot;&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/theology?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#theology<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eVrZmTiz9p\">pic.twitter.com\/eVrZmTiz9p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/1405131471262785538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I took a risk, and said, gently, \u201cImagine eternity from God\u2019s point of view. Imagine God having all that love pent up like you have right now. But the difference is, God\u2019s got that love all pent up potentially<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103127\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,162,437,435,184,436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-christology","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103131,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103127\/revisions\/103131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}