For several days, I was the sole recipient of the lavish attention of my two-year-old grandson, Miles.
Because I was baby-sitting, we were each other's entire love experience, and few do it better than single-minded toddlers.
We had extensive car and truck adventures, ate every meal together--regardless of his speed, climbed countless steps--one at a time, and read every word of treasured books (how do young minds recognize our attempted shortcuts?).
It is rare to enter a love experience so significant, when you are one another's complete orbit. Full attention. Riveting focus.
Isn't that what radical love means? Depth. Presence. Time.
You are each other's full measure...depth.
You treasure every moment together...presence.
You have nowhere else to be that is more important...time.Grandchildren carry us to a place of realizing that all of the beckoning of this crazy world comes in a distant second to the vividness of moments spent together. There is simply no more important place to be.
We don't need grandchildren to experience love this radical.
You are Jesus' full measure...there is no love with greater depth than His for you.
He treasures every moment spent with you getting to know Him. There is no more profound presence than the two of you together.
Time will somehow right itself into getting everything else done if you find moments to spend in His company.
For Him, it's all about you.
Isn't that crazy? What's not to get about radical love?
May your day include immersion, at least for some moments, in the radical love of Jesus.
There is simply no more important place to be.
