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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
A Meandering Stream of Love
Yesterday's readings offer a wonderful image of the importance of hearing and doing, and the loving submission that motivates and inspires real action. In the gospel, Jesus says (Luke 8:21) that closest to him (like mothers and brothers and sisters) are those who hear his word and act on it. Those who hear and put his word into action become family to him. The first reading (Prv. 21: 1-6, 10-13) gives a lovely description of what that means. "Like a stream is the king's heart in the hand of the Lord; wherever it pleases him, he directs it." What a moving image of how the Holy Spirit guides the willing actor. To those who put their hearts in God's hands are vouchsafed the true freedom of meandering continuously like a stream on a trail of love blazed by the "gravity" of God's grace. In such a life, to the extent we can lead it, we can say, as did Theresa of the Child Jesus, that, "[w]hen I am charitable it is only Jesus who is acting in me." Quoted in Giussani's talk, "In the Simplicity of my heart I have gladly given you everything."
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