Thread of Love

The theme of both “The Cloud of Unknowing” and “On Loving God” is to love selflessly. Chapter three in “The Cloud of Unknowing” tells the reader to lift up your heart to God in humble love. It follows to say love God for himself and not what you can get out of him. It says that we should think only of God and let nothing else enter our minds. As follows, chapter IX of “On Loving God” also talks about this absolutely selfless love that we should have for God. It says that we should be lost in him, completely absorbed in his love. “As a drop of water poured into wine loses itself, and takes the color and savor of wine: or as a bar of iron, heated red-hot. Becomes like fire itself, forgetting its own nature; or as the air radiant with sunbeams, seems not so much to be illuminated as to be light itself.” This is what we as Christians should strive be like in Christ.

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