TO be more
precise, everything, regardless of what and how
it is, can and should be an occasion, an instrument, a
material for
loving God and for everybody else. Whether it is good or
bad,
according to our human standards, or a success or
failure, a win or a
loss, as long as it is referred to Christ and united to
his love for
us, it can spawn and develop the love that is proper to
us.
The secret is
to refer everything to Christ who has
identified himself with us in all our possible human
events,
conditions and situations and has converted everything
into a means
for authentic loving.
Let’s remember
that when Christ is ignored or when things
are not referred to him, whatever good we may have in
this life would
only spoil us. And whatever misfortune we suffer would
only destroy
us.
With Christ,
everything acquires meaning and reason. If
things are good, Christ would teach us how to keep on
loving by
continually praising and thanking God and by continually
serving the
others in every which way. We would remain
service-oriented, never
bossy or complacent.
When things are
bad, Christ would teach us how to bear it,
how to find meaning in it by showing that it can be a
means for our
purification and instrument for the salvation of all
mankind. Even the
worst scenario in our life would have a positive and
constructive
value. We would never feel oppressed by whatever
misfortune we may
suffer.
We should never
forget this truth of our faith. We are
meant for loving. God created us for love. We ought to be
in love
always—in good times and bad, or as the marriage vows
would put it:
“for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness
and in
health, until death do us part.”
We should not
allow ourselves to be trapped by the
technicalities of the drama or the ups and downs of our
earthly life.
While it’s true that we have to attend to the
technicalities of our
life, we should not forget that the ultimate anchor that
would give
stability to our life is when we manage to love the way
God loves us
as shown to us by Christ.
We should
always check ourselves if this love is working
in our life all the time. As much as possible, this love
should be
felt by us. It should be the one that drives us, that
gives impulses
to our thoughts, desires, words and actions.
If we still do
not have that love, if we do not feel it
yet, then it is time for us to work on it, asking and
begging Christ
for it, and developing the appropriate attitude, virtues
and skills.
We should try
our best that we are not guided mainly by
our own human estimations of things, like our feelings
and emotions,
or even our intellectual insights, or some social or
political
consensus. These cannot capture the global picture of
things.
We have to be
guided by our faith that would go together
always with hope and charity. It is this divine gift that
gives us the
global picture of things and the basis for hoping and
loving.
It is this
living faith that would enable us to convert
everything in our life into an occasion, a means, an
instrument and a
material for loving God and everybody else. In other
words, there is
nothing in our life that cannot be made use of to live
out the love we
are supposed to have.
Whatever the
condition, circumstance, situation, we can
manage to love! We would never have a dull moment, even
in our periods
of tiredness, weakness, etc.
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