Love one another as I love you. What a commandment we have been given by Christ! Jesus loves us with his whole body, blood, soul, and divinity. He loves us perfectly with total desire for us, friendship towards us, and self-gift for us. The mere thought of trying to match his true love with our human and imperfect love is a challenge beyond our own abilities. However, God gives us the graces we need to love others with a pure desire, to befriend them, and to become living sacrifices of love for others. We have only to let go and let God love through us, imperfect though we made be. If we do that, then we can love perfectly by allowing God’s love to flow through us without alteration or resistance. When we do this, then we truly lay down our lives for our friends.
How do we live out this commandment to love one another as Jesus loves us? What things do we do to prepare our hearts, souls, minds, and bodies to love as they ought to love? What truly loving sacrifices do we make for others?
O Lord, show us how to love more perfectly.
Amen.
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