With all the devastating fires in Australia - and some here in NZ too - fire is on our minds at present. It is both essential - and dangerous when out of hand. I can't imagine life without fire. According to an interesting Wikipedia article on fire we've been depending on it for 420 million years!
But my real point in this post is a quote from another book I am currently working through: The New Spiritual Exercises in the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. by Louis Savary
"Teilhard connects the image of fire with love in an evolutionary prayer: 'Someday after mastering the wind, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.'"
The fire of love is the one kind of fire that does no damage at all no matter how far and wide it spreads. It only takes a match, a spark, a candle to start a fire.
Let's all be fire-lighters of love!
