Jesus only gave two commandments. One is to love God and from it comes the second, love your neighbors.
How does one love? More to the point, how does one love like Christ, passionately and intensely? For love burns, like His sacred heart. In church today, Fr. J would have wanted us to change our view of what is heaven, what is hell. For him, with God's love, with Christ's passion, heaven is fire, and hell is cold. Fire spreads while cold stifles us.
People love differently. Some of us love reluctantly. Some of us love passionately. And some of us love in the middle. Reluctant love -- love that is halfway... Passionate love -- love that transcends all... Middle love -- a calculated love, where every step of the way is thought of, every step making it closer to our goal and still keeping a part of us to ourselves just in case it will never work -- a kind of self-preservation thing...
There were only two questions for reflection. Think of a person that you love reluctantly or halfway. And think of that person whom you love with intensity and with passion, giving your all, without fear of rejection. For it is only in giving one's self up to love that one can achieve something great.
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