At its core, the Christ-life specifically, and the spiritual life more broadly, involves the recentering of our subjectivity from self to God. In this conscious, ongoing, and radical realignment there is a dethroning of successive emperors who rule and ruin our lives until we wake up, question, resist, and ultimately reject all other authorities except the authority of love. What are the names of your little emperors trying to play big, trying to act tough, as if their thumb up or down could determine your fate: emperor Worry, emperor Regret, emperor Unmourned Grief. Is it emperor Bigger House, emperor Security, emperor Career? Maybe it’s emperor Need To Be Right, emperor Stay Small, emperor Sour Grapes, or emperor As Long As All Mine Are Alright and Safe.

The false self lives by misplaced allegiances. As Brother David Steindl-Rast states, “Each of us can and must work toward a world in which love is the ultimate authority.” The one same process of full human becoming and the sacred drama of being Christened involves the deliberate and daily choice to co-author with (Holy ghostwriter) God a life whose authenticity, vibrancy, purpose, trajectory, and significance is discovered by giving oneself away again and again to the authority of love, to the authorship of love.

What would our lives look like, if the human scribble and holy script of each day were authored by love?

Write on, goodpeople! Write on !