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Mark 12:29-31 You shall love your neighbor as yourself. with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
Jesus tells his disciples (and us) that the greatest commandment is to LOVE God with all our heart and soul, all our mind and all our strength and to love our neighbor.
We love God with our heart and soul when we spend time in prayer talking and listening, when we share our joys and our struggles, when we express our gratitude for blessings received, when we seek forgiveness of our sins, when we remember that God is with us always.
We love God with our minds when we seek out wisdom and knowledge about the world God created, when we learn about the human body and brain, when we grow in awareness and understanding of other cultures, when we spend time learning about Scripture, the Saints, and teachings of the Apostles.
We love God with our strength by loving our neighbor in tangible ways, by feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick, visiting the prisoners, welcoming the stranger and forgiving sinners. We love God with our strength when we work to change unjust systems, when we care for the earth, and when we sacrifice our own comfort for the needs of others.
Our campusministry mission at St Ambrose is to build a welcoming community of Faith Learning Justice, a community of Ambrosians who love God with all their heart, mind and strength! Together let us grow in love.
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God sees Christ, His Son, in us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them." -Dorothy Day
As we continue our Lenten journey, we have a pretty good chunk of time to take a good look at ourselves, a time to reflect more deeply on what it means to love and to live.
In a world, a nation, a society that enjoys heaping on guilt, holding back forgiveness, and never forgetting, our need for deeper reflection is so important. How often do we hold back in offering forgiveness to someone who has wronged us? We hold on, we struggle to let go; we miss those opportunities to begin living in peace.
The mandate for all of Christianity is relatively simple. It is love. Now, how do we love? And what does it look like?
Love, real and true, is rarely pretty. It can be so incredibly difficult that we often find ourselves just giving up. Loves requires sacrifice, and self-discipline. Love requires an incredible journey of getting to know ourselves - our passions and shared interests, our triggers and our pains. Love requires a whole lot of humility, leading us into a space whereby we discover that we need one another to survive and to thrive.
This Lent, let’s take some time to reflect on that love - on the areas in our lives that need new breath and new life, on the people we need to be reconciled with and those people we need to seek forgiveness from.
