It’s a beautiful thing to be in love. To love someone means to always have them in mind. When someone is always on your mind, it’s very hard to do things that you know will hurt them.
Yes, it’s a beautiful thing to be in love, because to be in love is to be in God, to be one with Christ. Although my human nature limits the perfection of my love for Him, it does not limit my desire to uphold my heart to the highest of standards. Love chooses to declare loyalty not through extravagance but with consistency. I have learned that loving Christ means doing all things entrusted to me with great care- especially the seemingly menial things. Loving Christ means choosing to see His presence interlaced in every fibre of my reality within and beyond my mission areas.
“Love is not only an affirmation; it is also a rejection. The mere fact that John loves Mary with his whole heart means that he does not love Ruth with any part of it. Every protestation of love is a limitation of a wrong kind of free love. Love, here, is the curbing of the freedom understood as license, and yet it is the enjoyment of perfect freedom.- for all that one wants in life is to love that person. True love always imposes restrictions on itself- for the sake of others. True love, by its nature is uncompromising; it is the freeing of self from selfishness and egotism. Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another. ” -Fulton J. Sheen
“Love God, and then do whatever you please.”
– St. Augustine
