Are you aware of the things you do that keep you disconnected from God? As I contemplate the alienating effects of sin in my life, I realize how my simple behavior keeps me from God’s embrace, disconnected from resting in His perfect love.
Continue reading “Week Eleven: Perfect Love. Disconnected”During this season of Lent, sin reminds us that love can only be made perfect in the chaste Christ. This has been a hard concept for an achiever and recovering perfectionist like me. When I do something, I want to succeed. It is difficult emotionally when I don’t, and I’ve set my life up to avoid these situations.
Continue reading “Week Eleven: Perfect Love. Christ is Love”If we do not have love, we are nothing. With all the attention, focus and thirst for love through the ages, many struggle to find it or to even understand what genuine love is. Love cannot be reduced to an emotion. Love aims at union with the beloved, it is relationship, dynamic, creative just waiting to bring new life. We find our origins in love, and it is our final destination. Our goal is to see the points of intersection with love in our daily lives. It is the moments when we listen and say yes to the will of God, breaking beyond the illusions of our desires, plans and agenda.
Continue reading “The Virtue of Love. Looking for God’s Goodness and Weekly Reflection Summary”The great spiritual principal is detachment. The heart of the spiritual life is to love God and to love everything else for the sake of God. As I seek to find God’s goodness day by day, there are four things I stive to love for their intrinsic value: God, my neighbor, myself, and my body.
Continue reading “Week Ten: The Virtue of Love. Detachment”The season of Lent allows me to contemplate my habits and determine what I need to change in order to turn my whole being to be closer to God. It allows me the intentional time to reconcile, raise my heart and return wholeheartedly to my creator.
Continue reading “Week Ten: The Virtue of Love. Infused Habit”I have a teacher that shows me how to love. I also have a guide who is always with me that helps lead me to a divine love. Not as our culture defines love, but a love that is marked by kindness, compassion and mercy that wills the good of the other.
Continue reading “Week Ten: The Virtue of Love. Divine Love”Are you drawn toward the good? If not, don’t lose hope. I believe we are all are fundamentally drawn to God’s goodness, but it can be a struggle. I don’t think many of us make the decision to be evil. However, the dark forces are constantly pulling us and attracting us. It takes supernatural strength to resist the lull of becoming numb and asleep to the comforts the world provides.
Continue reading “Week Ten: The Virtue of Love. Drawn to Good”Just as there are physical laws that govern material objects, there are spiritual laws that govern the behavior and the relationships between human beings. We can be in tune with these laws in harmony or we can be in opposition, usually unhappy.
Continue reading “Week Ten: The Virtue of Love. Spiritual Physics”Did you know that there are three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity (or love)? They inform all the moral virtues and give life to them. They infuse us with supernatural powers.
Continue reading “Week Ten: The Virtue of Love. Theological Love”As we turn to God, we are taught how to love. Not as the world loves but with a merciful, compassionate life-giving love. A powerful exercise is to meditate on 1 Corinthians, God’s definition of what love is and place your name in place of love.
Quiet your heart and enjoy His presence … He is leading you to love. “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)
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Smitten With Goodness 