no vocabulary

There's no vocabulary
For love within a family, love that's lived in
But not looked at, love within the light of which
All else is seen, the love within which
All other love finds speech.
This love is silent.
T.S. Eliot

That's a great and profound thought! I can see it perfectly in my own experience of family. However, in the context of church, which takes on the metaphor of family, why do we have to keep finding a vocabulary to suggest Christian love and community? We're so self-conscious, sometimes; so artificial; so reminding, perhaps. I found reading Andrew Francis, Hospitality and Community (2012) a real help to a less self-conscious Christianity. Also, Ian Stackhouse, Primitive Piety (2012), chapter 9, 'Untamed Hospitality' a terrific challenge.