This weekend has been quite special in many ways for me. Seeing our not so small family of the focolare, meeting many people, even if only briefly, I could not help but feel like the son of a king! the many gifts. The way everyone I met was God's gift for me. I am tempted to name quite a few people but it would be unfair, because everybody was a gift for he other. It was an very special weekend for me, because I was living in the light, with Jesus truly amongst us! It was a special grace and it was truly an experience of the Holy Spirit at work! The richness and true revolution of our relationships lies in a simple phrase: "Love one another as I have loved you." Once again I understood what that actually meant in practice:
- Being rather then doing. If I am love for the other I have truly loved.
- To love means to accept the other in the present moment as a gift from God as he/she is, completely! If God accepts me completely can I do anything else with my brother or sister?
- Make haste to love but not to love hastily. Take time for the other. There were true meetings this weekend!
- I can always love! There is nothing that stops me from loving my neighbour in each present moment.
- As Jesus on the Cross continued to give, to love so can I in my situation. As always, one thing is what I would like to do quite another is to give forgetting myself and not looking for a return. That is love.
- Communion increases our love for one another. I can be a gift to the other! And the other for me!
..and then amongst all the things there is only love that remains. How much more fortunate can we be?
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