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Intercession

It's really quite simple. Love somebody. 

Oh, I know that the expression takes various forms. I know that there is a real, tangible frequency involved. Yet, it really is that simple. 

The best description of intercession I've ever read comes from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. 

Meg has lost her brother, Charles Wallace, to IT. IT is what I call the impossible. Charles Wallace has forgotten who he really is. He has no recollection of his own heart or being. He has behaved in hateful ways toward Meg and their father. His Reality has been hidden by impossibility. 

And Meg can only intercede. 

"She could stand there and she could love Charles Wallace. 

Her own Charles Wallace, the real Charles Wallace, the child for whom she had come back to Camazotz, to IT, the baby who was so much more than she was, and who was yet so utterly vulnerable. 

She could love Charles Wallace.

Charles. Charles, I love you. My baby brother who always takes care of me. Come back to me, Charles Wallace, come away from IT, come back, come home. I love you, Charles. Oh, Charles Wallace, I love you. 

Tears were streaming down her cheeks, but she was unaware of them. 

Now she was even able to look at him, at this animated thing that was not her own Charles Wallace at all. She was able to look and love. 

I love you. Charles Wallace, you are my darling and my dear and the light of my life and the treasure of my heart. I love you. I love you. I love you." (p.229) 

She loved him. She saw him for who he really was, not the impossible way he was behaving. And she simply loved him. 

It doesn't always work as quickly as it does in books and movies. Sometimes the Reality remains hidden for years as you faithfully love someone for who they really are. But I do believe that somewhere in the great infinite-eternal nature of existence, that Reality will manifest once again. And not only will you and the person for whom you have interceded see the Reality of their Nature once again, but you will have more love than ever before as you have invaded the impossible. You have led captivity captive. 

It's not hard to love someone when you can see who they really are. The Eyes of the Father and the Heart of the Father go hand-in-hand together. We will grow, as We remember, to love everyone and all things.

And Love remains. 

"And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him." ~1 John 4:16

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