To love, and to be loved, is one of the greatest gifts we can experience in this life. Truly, what is more wonderful?! What is more divine! And yet, to engage with love is to invite one of life’s greatest risks: loss. Truly, is there anything more devastating than losing a person, place or way of being that we have loved deeply? Together, we’ll ask questions about where love comes from, where it goes, and how we might find a sense of hope and balance as we traverse the ups and downs of open-hearted living.
Chris Freimuth is a first-year masters student at Yale Divinity School, where his studies focus on ecological care and interfaith spirituality. Prior to entering seminary, Chris ran a garden design company in New York City and a massage therapy practice in San Francisco. He loves to talk about love, which he recognizes as the root and reason of the spiritual life. His sermon will draw on his own experiences of love and loss, as well as the mystical traditions from which he draws inspiration.