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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.
