Here I want them all to be like little children. For this they must learn to be silent, not to become agitated, not to organize themselves, not to act. They must be little children who pray and love, little children who suffer with me, for me and in me for the salvation of all my children.
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Let’s look at those personality clashes. X gets on the nerves of Y. Okay, let him or her. Keep smiling. Be extra charitable to that person. Don’t withdraw. This is only a tiny splinter of the cross on which you are supposed to be crucified. What are you worried about? Keep going. You have problems? The type of work you are assigned? Nagging fears? Christ must have had fears too, when he saw them preparing to flagellate him. Unite yourself with him and his passion and keep on going!
Grace in Every Season (March 18)
Keep going, when dark moments come as they inevitably will…keep going… keep silence, pray, love the Lord, offer it up!
I said ‘love the Lord’ and not simply ‘love’. I feel that our society has used and abused this word and has distorted it so badly that it’s nearly unrecognizable. So when you hear ‘love everyone’ and the person in front of you brings out anything but loving feelings, you may be tempted to either consult with society’s opinion of what it means to love or your own inclinations. Don’t!
Instead what you are to do FIRST is “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” And only then ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
That means to turn to Him for guidance, not society. That when we love Him so completely, we want to do nothing but His will. This requires a lot of grace and dying to self, to even get to this point. Is His will always sappy sweet or accepting of every injurious behavior? Of course not! But it’s always filled with love, meaning it desires the greater good for the other… and we are required to love others in this way. Always desiring their greater good, just as we would for ourselves.
This is how we unite ourselves with Christ for the salvation of all.
After posting the above, I got the following link from Fr. Andre. It shows us where the summit of God’s love exists… in the Eucharist. Adore Him in the Eucharist if you want to love well.