Acts of mercy

This reflection made my heart leaps in joy! How beautiful and sweet is the truth that we are created in Christ and for Christ. Nothing can come between His love and us. He has pour out his love and it's not hidden before our eyes, when he faithfully and out of his good will, ascended to the Cross in the flesh to trample down sin and death, and bestow us victory and life.
From the very beginning of our life, it is about Christ and his faithfulness which sustains us day by day. And truly  it is a great and awesome mystery, what is son of man that Lord is mindful of him? Yet, the Lord's generous care is indescribable.
Yes, on this earth we still see so many sorrows and suffering due to ignorance, violence, worries and sickness, and that will always be with us, as a witness of how the world starving for the Original love which she had been designed for. The way suffering and sorrows can be transformed into joy in the Lord is not through despair and indolence or murmuring in the mouth, rather in the spirit of love, compassion and good will toward all. Even slightest kindness and acts of mercy does make difference. Yet, discernment is needed here as not to give materialistic hope.
The way of the kingdom sometimes turned out to be somehow different from what the world would suppose.  They think that by freeing people from poverty above all, somehow they will deliver people from torments of this world. They come and fix the infrastructure, teaching them how to live in better prosperity and education.   However the essence of the suffering stay the same and might even be untouched. It cannot be healed through making of better settlement or better civilization which supposedly deliver people from the sorrows.
"Go and sell all your belongings and give it to the poor." That could be in some sense work in quite contrary way. Act of emptying ourselves for the sake of the kingdom so that all that we are filled with God alone and His love is the core and heart of all reaching out. But the unfortunate thing would be if we exchange this with the desire to wipe out poverty and suffering at first hand. History witnesses how even God worked through times of trouble and harvest his saints all over places.
Thus, how? When all reach out is about love of God and His presence, then, that's it. The acts of mercy, kindness and generosity follows and falls into its right places. These acts won't overshadow the main purpose  nor be the substitute of the goal, that is to challenge people to come back to the Lord to be cured, healed and freed. It is like what Mother Gabriella used to tell, "Education is to teach children to love God."
Love Christ zealously, joyfully and whole-heartedly, then through this love, silence and prayers visit and love our neighbors. These two can never be divorced. Glory to God.