Descending and Ascending Patterns of Love

letter #006

photo by Carmen Acevedo Butcher

James Finley shares with us his recent reflections on the descending and ascending patterns of love. In Jim’s mystical incantation, Jim encircles the cave of the listener’s heart. He encourages us to bear witness to the sustaining and precious love dimensions that are always present. I was left with the self-reflective question: What might I do today to cooperate in the depth dimension of love?

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“In the rise and the fall, the more we can stabilize in the depths of love that sustain in the rhythm of ascending and descending, there is the richness of the deepest ascent, which is the primacy of love.”

—James Finley