Monday, June 10, 2019

Let’s make a beautiful, meaningful day


OUR life should mirror the life of God himself, since we
are supposed to be his image and likeness. That’s how we have been
created. We are meant to live our life with God. We can even say that
God treats us the way he treats himself. For this purpose he gave us
the power to know him and to love him by giving us intelligence and
will, and most of all, his grace that is completely gratuitous.

            It is this grace that enables us to be like God and to
live our life with him. Our intelligence and will, on their own, would
not enable us to be like God, but they are necessary for us to
correspond to God’s grace. They have what is called the ‘obediential
potency’ that enables us to receive grace and to have the potency to
elevate us to the supernatural life of God.

           And even if we messed up the original plan of God for us,
he recovered us with his work of redemption. Our life should also
therefore mirror not only the creative life of God, which is already
overwhelming, but also the redemptive work of his, which is even more
overwhelming.

            But let’s not be afraid, since God himself will take care
of everything. Ours is simply to go along with him by corresponding to
his love as best we could. This business of mirroring of God’s life in
ours should be a result not of our desire only, which is quite
subjective and cannot go the distance. It should be the result of our
sense of gratitude for the immense and tremendous love God has for us.
As the way of true love goes, love is repaid with love. God has loved
us first, and so we love him in return.

            This mirroring of God’s life in us should somehow be lived
out everyday. In this, we have to try to be very specific and
concrete, avoiding a generic approach. In a manner of speaking, let us
move from a grainy kind of outlook in life to one that is high
definition.

            And so, each time we wake up in the morning, for example,
let’s direct ourselves first of all to God to thank him for the new
day and the new opportunity we have to spend our day with him and to
live our life with him. And then let’s see how we can make the day
beautiful, productive, meaningful.

            That is why as soon as we recover our senses after waking
up, let us try to figure out how we can mirror God’s life in our day.
For sure, there are many and endless possibilities. If we are truly
moved by God’s love us, we will never run out of ideas, initiatives,
plans and strategies to mirror God’s life and love in our daily life.

            If we are truly moved by God’s love for us, we would
always be inventive and creative, and we would do all this without
counting the cost, in total generosity. Everything will be done in
gratis, although we know that God cannot be outdone in generosity. In
other words, we mirror God’s overwhelming and gratuitous love for us
in our love for him in return. We would be drawn into the dynamics of
God’s love.

            All throughout the day, we should have an abiding
awareness that everything we do, from our thoughts and desires to our
words and actions, is motivated and inspired by the love of God. We
should end the day aware that we have spent it in love for God which
will always have the accompanying complement of love for the others,
including those who do not love us.

            Let’s remember that God’s love has a universal coverage.
He is very willing to give mercy to those who offend him. This is how
we can make a beautiful and meaningful day everyday.

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