Channels of His Love

I cannot contain Thee!
But My child...you were never meant to.

We are all channels of His love and blessings - a thunderstorm of blessings He means not for us to receive as rains from the Heavens and dam up for ourselves. He desires us to be open conduits of His grace, that it may freely flow and water those who most need it. To keep to ourselves that which is meant to be shared with others; to think only of self and believe only in our own discretion as to what to do with these gifts - this is a dangerous damming up of the grace that should never be withheld. But to open up ourselves as channels, to release the floodwaters and let them pour forth, is to do what He made us for, that He may be glorified through us, and that we may be glorified in Him as He allows us to participate in His great plan for mankind. And as He continues to pour forth and use us as His channels, so too does our capacity to receive Him grow, together with the awareness that this is exactly what we were meant to do.

"Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not." - Saint Augustine