In the beginning there was Love,
and Love was with God,
and Love was God.
She was with God in the beginning.
Through her all things were given the breath of God;
without her nothing was living that is alive.
In her was life,
and that life was the love of women and men.
The Love warms the coldness,
but the coldness has not understood it.
There came a man who was sent from God; his name was Jeshua.
He came as a witness to testify concerning that love,
so that through him everyone might be filled with the Spirit.
He himself was the Light;
he came as a witness to the truth and love which is in God.
The true love that burns in the heart of everyone
was coming into the world.
She was in the world,
and though the world was given life through her,
the world did not recognize her.
She came to those who were her own,
but her own did not welcome her.
Yet to all who did accept her,
to those who were open to her power,
she gave the breath and warmth of God's children
- born not of nature's urging, nor of human choice nor of man's determination,
but born again 'of God'.
The Spirit was poured out and she came to dwell in every heart.
We have seen her glory,
the glory of the binding love between the Father and the Son,
full of grace and truth.
Jeshua testified concerning her:
"I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always,
the Spirit of truth,
which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees her nor knows her.
But you know her, because she remains with you,
and will be in you.
"I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go.
For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you.
But if I go, I will send her to you.
"When she comes, the Spirit of truth,
she will guide you to all truth.
She will not speak on her own, but she will speak what she hears,
and will declare to you the things that are coming.
"She will glorify me,
because she will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you
that she will take from what is mine and declare it to you."
He cried out, saying,
“I have come to cast fire on the earth and how I would that it were kindled."
From her fullness we have all received,
grace for grace,
because while the law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ,
and the Spirit is poured out over humankind
as a nourishing, mothering love.
No one has ever seen God.
The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him
and the Spirit of Love abides in our hearts.