The encounter with my Dad household and my friends in my little village has made me think this little thought. Love is very simple. It is also sincere and pure. We don't need any sophisticate knowledge or lectures to love, although it's sometimes lofty to describe what love is.
I admit how poor and weak and unworthy my love has been! When I see upon Him, I am trembled with such great Love. His Love is amazing, very Mighty and Strong.
It's very easy for me to be tempted to give up or to withhold my love simply because my friend do a little mistake. Or, like people in Good Samaritan's parable, at times I hindered my self to love someone in need. It is easier to see what is weak from my brothers than my own.
But He, He loves us to the point that He gave His own life to be ransom. When He was slandered, he kept silent. When He was mocked, he prayed for them. It's perfectly what He taught us: When someone slaps your right cheek, give your left cheek.
Love is very simple, yet it needs sacrifice. It flows through a pure heart from the Source through the sliding and steep surface, the surface which facing down. Who is the Source? He who is Love, God Himself. Can we love apart from Him?
It is simple because it is freely given but its power induces the change of the loved hearts to be beautiful like it. This doesn't need any prejudice toward the loved ones. It doesn't need our own 'measurement' of the beloved's worthiness to receive: because only Him is Worthy to search the hearts. Thus the lover would not say the loved: burden, problem, rather 'my joy!' It also needs no comparison but simply it is: to love everyone he sees.
Lord, have mercy! I realize that in my weakness I could not love everyone at once, but Lord, grant me Thy Grace to love Thee and my neighbors as Thou hast commended, those whom by Thy Providence Thou hast made known to me and to come in Thy servant's life. Through the prayers of Thy Holy Mother and of our holy fathers and mothers, and the prayers of St. Theophilus, O Lord have mercy on us!
Lord have mercy on us all indeed!
ReplyDeleteI struggle as you do Yudhie: thank you for articulating so well the struggles and actions needed. My prayers for you; I humbly ask for yours in return.
And welcome back!
Thanks for your prayers brother :), my prayers with you,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much ;). I am enjoy reading your stories in your well-designed blog!
oops, brother Ian I was the one who wrote the comment above, but accidentally, my friend's (De Santos) account still on, so De Santos' comment is mine :P
ReplyDeleteMy prayers with you brother! :)