...So you know you are loved...

 "You should pray and meditate every day, so you know that you are loved, so you feel the presence of God's love in your life.  This is the only way you can truly help others and serve the poorest of the poor.  

We have to give a full heart, one that is saturated with love, overflowing to others.

Before we can give freely, we have to know that we are loved.

This is why you should pray and meditate every day.

So you can remember you are loved, letting it fill your heart and your body.

Let it fill every cell of your being.

Then, give it all away."

Mother Teresa

What is visible when you work?

"Work is love made visible."

Kahlil Gibran

How do you harmonize the balance?

We harmonize and balance necessary self-care with a constant expansion beyond ourselves to loving others. This is brilliant! It’s both simple and elegant, showing us how to love our neighbor as our self. Imagining and working toward this harmony keeps us from seeking impossible, private, and heroic ideals. Now the possibility of love is potentially right in front of us and always concrete. Love is no longer a theory or a heroic ideal. Love is seeking the good of as many as possible.

                                    (from Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations, 

                                                                from the Center for Action and Contemplation,                             

                                     5/27/2024)     

Are you waiting in love?

 "...prayer seems to be a matter of waiting in love.  Returning to love.  Trusting that love is the deepest stream of reality."  

Richard Rohr speaks so eloquently to the beauty of love.

This is from one of his devotions from today from his Center for Action and Contemplation.

A good working definition of Love

 "What do we mean by love? poses 19th Century founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist at Coxley, Oxford, Richard Meux Benson:

"It is love whereby we exist not for ourselves but for others.

It is love whereby we rejoice in contemplating others' perfections as truly as if they were our own.

It is love whereby we acknowledge our obligations to others and seek to make return for them for all the good we have received.

The heart must confess that there is a sense of unity involving the moral obligation of love which binds us to the whole human race...

They are the totality out of which we have emerged, and we perish in the void if we seek to live as individuals for ourselves alone."

(quoted in Meditating on the Word, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, page 18, 19)

A hunk, a hunk of burning love!

"Love is  a fire of transformation"... so says Ilia Delia.  The fire needs to be kept alive.  

 

Let it burn and purify.

 

 Let love do its work.

 

 Love will change you.  

Real Valentine's Day Love

 On Valentines Day - when she lost her husband, Carolyn Moor, writes almost a quarter of a century later about love:

"Love is activated when we witness beauty and truth in the world."

Thank you for reminding us we need to look for beauty and discover truth and love will follow.