Beloved

You are chosen simply to be loved, and to embody Love.

 First Comes Belovedness

Think of all the people God calls in Scripture: Moses, Mary, Jeremiah, Paul.

None of them start from strength.

None of them feel particularly qualified.

Most of them protest: “Not me. Wrong person. You must be thinking of someone else.”

But God doesn’t ask for perfection.

God starts with presence.

“I will be with you,” He says again and again.

God doesn’t demand certainty.

God names them “beloved” and then walks with them as they grow into the rest.

What if we believed that?

What if our calling began not with pressure, but with presence?

Not with achievement, but with acceptance?

Not with hustle, but with being held?

You Are the Way Love Gets Through

I think the world needs fewer people trying to be “important” for God, and more people willing to show up as Love in the skin they’re already in.

That’s the invitation Rohr is pointing to:

“We do have roles and tasks in this world, but finally they are all the same, 

to uniquely be divine love in a way that no one else can or will.”

That line stopped me.

You are not a generic placeholder for grace.

You are an unrepeatable expression of God’s presence.

Which means…

You don’t have to be Mary or Moses.

You don’t have to preach like Paul or pray like Peter.

You don’t need to write books, start movements, or change the world.

You just need to show up.

Present. 

Vulnerable.

Open. 

Willing to be Love where you are.

In your classroom.

In your living room.

In your coffee shop conversation.

In your silent prayer that no one else sees.

A Quiet Revolution of Love

This is how the Mystery passes on, from age to age.

Ordinary people remembering they are beloved.

And then helping others remember too.

You don’t need a platform.

You don’t need perfect theology.

You just need to trust that God’s love can flow through your particular life.

Not in spite of your uniqueness, but because of it.

You are God’s yes in the world.

Just as you are.

Right where you are.

Be the beloved, and let Love get through.