Love's Labour Never Lost

The Love of the Cross is Never Lost....
Always Given, Waiting to be Received

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its reception.

                                                                             Harold Loukes

I like the image of the cross given in light because it reflects the message in John's Gospel that the Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has never overcome it. Often overlooked is the other truth that we are created to be vessels of that Light...that we have no light of our own--though we certainly try to believe that...and that glory is the Glory given by God.  

Harold Loukes certainly hits the theme that we often measure that love by what we view as "success."  If it is indeed God's Light, as we proclaim--the Light of Christ in the Great Easter Vigil--then we alone are called to help prepare the place for that Light, but we cannot bestow it as if it were ours.