{"id":4397,"date":"2026-08-30T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matawanumc.org\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:58:38","slug":"gods-whyless-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matawanumc.org\/?p=4397","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;God&#8217;s Whyless Love&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">On our best days and our worst,<br>in times both clever and confused,<br>our life is finally summed in this: we are made to love without reason,<br>to breathe in the wide open plain of wonder,<br>to ponder without asking why, because in God there is no why to be found,<br>no reason to be known beyond the flame of ever whyless love.<br>from Meister Eckhart\u2019s Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless Soul by Jon M. Sweeney and Mark S. Burrows. 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