Here we are,
you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. Spiritual
Friendship
Saint Aelred whom we celebrate
today could be certain that in his experience of relationship, Christ was ever
present, for Christ Jesus is never ever in competition with his creation. God
is Love. Love is one. And so Jesus is truly with us in all of our loving
interconnectedness. And so Aelred will at last declare, “God is friendship.”
Image of Saint Aelred from an early Cistercian manuscript.
