Love is creative. Love is transformative. Love can create something good that was not there before. Love can take what is there and transform it into something better. God has given each of us the incredible privilege, and the serious responsibility, of participating in the creative, transformative power of love.
Lord, I Want to See
Most of us are not physically blind, but we all suffer from at least some degree of spiritual blindness. As people who are so often blind, whether willfully or inadvertently, to the good in others, let us join in the blind man’s entreaty (Luke 18:41): Lord, help us to see!
There Are No Ordinary People
There are no ordinary people, because God made every single one of us imago Dei—in his own image and likeness (Genesis 1:26). Keeping this in mind helps us to see the good in others, even when that goodness is a little (or a lot) harder to see at first.
Where Love Is, There Is the Eye
Love enables us to see the good more clearly: in other people, in ourselves, and in life itself.
Finding Treasures in Pockets of Time
Maria Riley describes how she has learned to turn tiny pockets of time over to God.
How Good That You Exist!
Everyone needs at least one person in their lives who can honestly say to them, “How good that you exist!”
A Wonka Way of Life
From a family game to movie night, Maria Riley shares an invaluable lesson she learned from a classic character.
Food for the Journey
Like Jesus, we are called to “break ourselves open and pour ourselves out” in love for our fellow human beings, becoming “food” and “drink” for them as they make their way through their own journey to Love.
Love Is Life that Pours Itself Forth
We are most fully alive when we are “breaking ourselves open and pouring ourselves out” in loving self-gift to God and neighbor.
Giving Back to the Giver
To surrender your life to God is to offer yourself as a conduit for the divine love.