Love Not Addiction

Choosing God

Gerald May

 

God refuses to be an object for attachment because God desires full love, not addiction. Love born of true freedom, love free from attachment, requires that we search for a deepening awareness of God, just as God freely reaches out to us. In addition, full love for God means we must turn to God over and against other things.


If our choice of God is to be made with integrity, we must first have felt other attractions and chosen, painfully, not to make them our gods.


True love, then, is not only born of freedom; it is also born of difficult choice. A mature and meaningful love must say something like, 'I have experienced other goodnesses, and they are beautiful, but it is You, my true heart's desire, whom I choose above all.'


We have to turn away before we can come home with dignity.

Source: Addiction and Grace

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