Opening Prayer: I feel your love as you hold me to your sacred
heart, my beloved Jesus, my God, my Master, but I feel, too, the need I have of
your tenderness, and your caress because of my infinite weakness. ~Charles de
Foucauld
Scripture: Mark 12:29-31
Journal: What is your response to the Scriptures today? What comes alive in you? What is disrupted within you? What will it look like for you to love Him
today?
Reflection:
Before anything, love Me. Just love Me, it's
as simple as that. In fact, that is the one thing I really want
from you, your love. And I want all of it. I want you to
love me with everything you've got; all of your heart, soul,
mind, and strength. Every bit of you. And I want you to love me for
Me, not for the sake of anyone, or anything else. I must be the
end, and not just a means to some other end. So love me because
that's what I made you to do. And when you do what I have made you to do,
you will know joy and fullness like you have never known it before. Then,
and only then, will you be able to truly love others; for then
you will be free from needing them to come through for you in some
strangely dependent way. This freedom from needing them will allow you to
truly love them, rather than to try and manipulate love out of them.
For this second love can only be a reflection of the first.
Prayer
Closing Prayer: Almighty God, my Father, I call upon you and
request of you that your love may be found in me your servant. I know not how to love as I ought; but you
who are Love can reveal it unto me. Show
me the way to Love. Amen. (Disciplines
for the Inner Life by Bob Benson and Michael W. Benson)
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