The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Love is Your Yoke

What you believe matters little.
What you know experientially changes you,
and will change the world.

A great ox moves steadily across the field.
Love is the yoke that tethers him to the plow.
God is that plow carving furrows in the soil.
You are the freshly plowed field.

Be that ox and feel the yoke.
Be the tether that binds with love.
Become God’s plow and go deeper still.
Be the seed of life that dies,
so you may give away your fruit.