Richard Rohr’s work titled Silent Compassion seeks to find God in contemplation. In Rohr’s fourth chapter he states “God is another word for the heart of everything and for everything precisely in its connectedness. When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything” (p. 49). After being halted by those words and stopping to reread the phrase, I began to contemplate Rohr’s words and the meaning behind them. Through the use of this response, I will explain what Rohr means behind the word God being synonymous for the heart of everything and argue that Rohr’s statement is a warning as to what it means to love God in the entirety of who He is. In the first line, Rohr offers a statement that warrants readers to understand that God is
