Greetings peace and blessings to you and your families and friends as we make our way through the second week of lent. Here on the northern East Coast the days are steadily getting longer – the light is increasing with rapid yet slow and steady brilliance making its mark on the character of “day” more and more each day. To me this is a marvelous reminder of Love, and how this Love enters into communion with us and makes its mark on our common human life. My girl Evelyn Underhil in speaking about the mark Love imprints on our communion provides us with a glimpse into the how and why. Referring to this marvelous mark made by Love, she says its made “with all the energy of His creative love, to transform it, to exhibit to us its richness, its unguessed significance; speaking our language, and showing us His secrete beauty on our own scale.
The manifestation of Beauty itself through the beauty of this increasing light is a window providing us the opportunity to see the essence of the Source of such wondrous Beauty, which is self-giving Love. How awesome to behold and participate in this wondrous communion of love. In speaking of this self-giving Love Evelyn makes some amazing remarks about this amazing Love: “it is wholly present when it loves, so loved this world as to desire to reveal within it the deepest secrete of His thought; appearing within and through His small fugitive, imperfect creatures, in closest union with humanity…The extremes of the transcendent and the homely are suddenly brought together in the disconcerting revelation of reality…All this is the chosen vehicle for the unmeasured inpouring of the Divine Life and Love.
All of this is an expression of ”the love of God made known to us in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:39), which makes us “more than conquerors” (Romans 8:37). In a written letter to the youth of Cuba the great JPII said, “This love alone can lighten up the night of human loneliness.” So as the days become longer and the light gets brighter I pray for a transformation of the darkness of human loneliness by a paralleled increase of our love in conjunction with the increasing light each day as we tend towards that Day that will not be measured by the sun but rather by the Light of Love that never ends.
Peace and Blessings to you and all your families and friends and Lord willing, I’ll talk to ya’ll next week 4 ever in Jesus and Mary...
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