Reflection
We do not exist for ourselves alone and it is only when we are convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean, first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
Thomas Merton
Prayer
Lord, grant that I may not so much seek
To be understood as to understand
To be consoled as to console
To be loved as to love.
Action
How can I share my joy in the gift of life today?
Suggested Reading
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1 Corinthians: 12
Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.
Pope Francis
We will still build the Kingdom — not with walls, but with love. Be awake. Be loving
Pope Leo XIV
Only when we have the courage to cross the road and look in one another’s eyes can we see there that we are children of the same God and members of the same human family.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
Hildegard of Bingen
Only the unity of all can bring the well-being of all.
Robert Muller