He loves His People.
He loves the human race;
each and all personally, and individually.
each and all personally, and individually.
He loves us as He chose to suffer His Passion:
as He was abandoned in the Garden,
as He was scourged, crowned with thorns, insulted,
battered and assaulted for our sake.
battered and assaulted for our sake.
He chose to be made into the sin.
He loves and forgives us as He was raised up
on the meanest form of execution: the Cross,
on the meanest form of execution: the Cross,
and mocked as He died in love.
He loves us to this day and every day.
He uses any and every tiny impetus we might have
for loving as they arise in us.
for loving as they arise in us.
By His Grace we grow from a selfish, self-centered, fear driven,
worldly person, into an unselfish, loving, God-centered person.
worldly person, into an unselfish, loving, God-centered person.
He is intent on saving us from our sins
and unconscious neglect.
and unconscious neglect.
In each moment of His interactions with us,
both in our present, and when He was on earth,
there is one theme that consistently accompanies His love:
a profound and sensitive humility.
He was humble to be born in a barren stable.
He was humble to be obedient to His earthly parents.
He was humble to live among us poor folk;
sharing all our weakness, all our humanity.
On the night before His sufferings, after the Mystical Supper,
where He gave His Holy Body and Blood,
He stripped Himself of His outer garments
and patiently, blessedly, and humbly washed their feet.
He washes our feet too, every day.
From His personal experience, He understands us intimately.
He is with us at the moment of our Death
since He experienced that as well;
unimaginably desolate and alone on the Cross.
We see His wonderful example right before us.
He is as near as our next breath.
How great is that Love?
He showed us how to BE with ourselves and each other:
how we should act, how we should think.
He is always inviting us into His Sacred Heart
that embodies love, forgiveness and complete pardon.
Let us live this sweet and blessed life of love and service to God and to all of our brothers and sisters.
Through His Passion and Death on the Cross we have the ability;
all that is needed is our loving, active response
to wholeheartedly try and to persevere.
This reflection above is based on an Orthodox meditation.
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