Fall in Love
(Fr. Pedro Arrupe)
Nothing is more practical than
finding God, than
falling in Love
in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide
what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, whom you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in Love, stay in love,
and it will decide everything.
A professor shared this prayer to us a while back in one my theology classes, and it has never ceased to remind of what it means to live a purpose-driven life. Most days I wake up not knowing what lies in store for me (still waiting to read a set of Job Description for Full-Time Work), and the illusion on certain mornings even is that there is “nothing to do”.
This is never really the situation though.
I am not simply a Worker fulfilling a list of responsibilities, but a servant responding to the Mission the loving Father asks of me, each and every single day. On those lazy days, I must ask then, where are you calling me today, Lord? And when He replies, I answer. Knowing fully well Who is asking, my Beloved, what is left to do but wanting to give my best to Him, from the very minute I wake up in the morning, until I lay to rest at night?
Fall in love. Stay in love. And it will decide everything.
