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“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” (Matthew 11:29).

Gift of Love (Christian Riese Lassen)

My children take it out of me.  Sometimes I feel that no matter how much I give to them it will never be enough.  And when I speak about my children, I speak about my biological children and my spiritual children too.

Just when I think that I am over the worst of things, then something changes, they grow up, and we move on to the next hurdle to deal with.

And I cannot blame my children for this – this is life.  After all, I am still changing and developing and growing and this affects my mother and father as their relationship changes with me.

It occurs to me that I can never ever love enough or give enough to my children – this is God’s mission for me.

And I have been reflecting on that today as I have been reflecting on this, I have thought a lot about the fact that God calls me His child.  And what does this mean?

This means that His love for me is infinite.  God is – after all – no imperfect parent.  He is eternal and perfect.  God loves endlessly.  The love of God for my miserable soul is so great that I could never imagine how great is the Holy Love of God for me.

“No matter how much you may love, you will never love enough. The human heart is endowed with an enormous coefficient of expansion. When it loves, it opens out in a crescendo of affection that overcomes all barriers. If you love Our Lord, there will not be a single creature that does not find a place in your heart.” (“Way of the Cross”, 8th Station, at 5).

In order to follow in the footsteps of Christ, I must be willing to love and let that love never be enough.  I must be willing to submit myself to the sort of love that God has for me.  A parent’s love for their child.  I must be willing to love in a way that separates me from others.

I must be willing to love in a way that allows me to show not only the love in my heart but the Holy Love of God for others.  And this means that what I am really being called to do is to be a conduit.  A conduit is a thing that allows something else to travel through it.  A conduit of electricity is a wire.  And as a Christian – a follower of Christ – I am being asked to allow Christ to flow through me so that His love can reach others.  And that love is so great that it can never be enough for me to love anther because as a conduit my job is simply to make way for the magnitude of God’s love to flow through me.

And I have been thinking about that today – as a Child of God…

For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.