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The deepest love you can have for someone is to will their ultimate good. And what is their ultimate good? Ut in Deo sit: that they may be in God.
Love is creative. Love is transformative. Love can create something good that was not there before. Love can take what is there and transform it into something better. God has given each of us the incredible privilege, and the serious responsibility, of participating in the creative, transformative power of love.
Most of us are not physically blind, but we all suffer from at least some degree of spiritual blindness. As people who are so often blind, whether willfully or inadvertently, to the good in others, let us join in the blind man’s entreaty (Luke 18:41): Lord, help us to see!
There are no ordinary people, because God made every single one of us imago Dei—in his own image and likeness (Genesis 1:26). Keeping this in mind helps us to see the good in others, even when that goodness is a little (or a lot) harder to see at first.
Love enables us to see the good more clearly: in other people, in ourselves, and in life itself.
Everyone needs at least one person in their lives who can honestly say to them, “How good that you exist!”
Like Jesus, we are called to “break ourselves open and pour ourselves out” in love for our fellow human beings, becoming “food” and “drink” for them as they make their way through their own journey to Love.
We are most fully alive when we are “breaking ourselves open and pouring ourselves out” in loving self-gift to God and neighbor.
To surrender your life to God is to offer yourself as a conduit for the divine love.
To give one’s self away in love to God is, paradoxically, to be in the fullest possible possession of one’s self, breaking out of the dungeon of the ego and into the infinite spaces of the divine love.
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