During agape meditation the word that surfaced for me was “invitation.” I was aware of the spiritual power of agape as an invitation to the Presence. And of course, as I had realized many times before, agape is also the access to Presence, so it functions with a double purpose: as both the invitation and the fulfillment of the invitation.
Another reason “invitation” is a good way to approach meditating on agape has to do with the previous approach I talked about of seeing agape as a divine gift. The approach involves seeing agape given into our hearts as the basis and means for inviting us to be drawn into the intimacy of Presence.
Then further meditation led me to see how the gift of agape also invites us to follow it out to share with others. That stretches the meaning of invitation so that we become the agents to invite others to feel the impact of agape in our relationship with them, and also for them to accept the invitation of letting agape flow in their life. So as we spend time with that relationship of sharing agape, we can think of the profound spiritual quality of that time together as “agape time.”
