In this perfection series, I shall focus on love. St. Bernard writes this in Sermon 69:1--
"The soul must be in control of its passions if it is to become the dwelling place of God....Give me a soul who love God alone and everything else for his sake; which has realized that Christ is the only reason for its existence, a soul whose labors and leisure tend to rest in the presence of God;...this soul is worthy of the caresses of the Bridegroom."
Do we not all want to love and to be loved? Do not our hearts constantly seek the "perfect love"? For some, this search is a hectic and careless search in all the wrong places. For some, it is the pressure of being in an unloving relationship. For some, it is the awful realization that one has never been loved by a human for one's self. These failures to find love in the world push us to God.
But, if we truly seek God, He will find us. The writer of the introduction to the book I am using states an extremely important point: "But to seek after God, to realize one's insufficiency, to depend upon the Word, supposes living in a supernatural atmosphere." (M. Corneille Halflants, OSCO).
How hard this is in our world! One must create this supernatural atmosphere, in the home, in some corner of work, in one's mind.
If one is not consciously creating this cell in one's mind, this supernatural air which to breathe daily, one is missing the opportunity to meet God.
Is anything else important but meeting the God Who waits for you?
to be continued...
