Being Loved

A Practice of Love

Our Father’s greatest desire is that we love our eternal King with all our hearts, all our souls, all our minds, and with all our strength.

And how would you show this love?

By remembering him at all times.

By cultivating thankfulness for his many blessings, and trusting his good providence

for the meeting of our needs.

By loving all whose lives intersect our own.

By choosing to serve rather than to be served, to be wounded rather than to wound, and by bearing patiently with the failings of others, extending the same kindness, mercy, and compassion that God in Christ has so graciously offered us.

We would also love him by serving with faithfulness and due passion in our various vocations, by delighting in all things he has created for our benefit and pleasure, and by caring well for all he has given us to steward.

O children of the Living God, you would do well to practice your love in these ways today!

From A Liturgy of the Hours: Daybreak, Every Moment Holy

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