God loves all of us intensely and unconditionally (although God doesn’t necessarily love everything we do); provides all that we need and wants to care for us forever; wants to give God’s very self to us so that we can fully participate in God’s life of love, and thereby enjoy God’s peace and joy so our joy can be complete. So God wants to give us complete happiness by giving God’s very Self and God’s way of life to us. When this process of transformation is complete, we are in Divine Union, the goal of every Christian.

In this state of Divine Union, we are fully in the flower. We know God’s truths (the roots) and believe them completely. Knowing and believing God’s truths naturally leads our willfulness to conform with God’s Will or God’s Holy Desires (the stem of the flower). This naturally leads to sharing in God’s love, Peace and Joy (the flowering portion of the flower). And naturally leads to loving action in all human encounters (the fragrance of the flower).

The flower looks like this:

Holy Desire: The Stem of the Flower

Once our thinking conforms to God’s thinking, by knowing and believing in God’s great truths (the roots of the flower), our willfulness begins to conform to God’s will (the stem of the flower).

For example, once we realize the truth that God loves us and everyone else, and wants us to love God and everyone else so that we can experience God’s joy, we begin to want to love others because it is in our own best interest, as well as the best interest of God and all humans. The holy desire to love begins to burn in us. And as we love more and more, the fruits of our loving begin to arise. The fruits of experiencing within us the peace and joy and love of God (the bloom of the flower). And the fruits of each loving action (the fragrance of the flower).

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