A Crash Course on Love: # Lesson 1
Just done with the intense Christmas mood with the Epiphany just past, the Word offers us a crash course on love, beginning today, to set the tone for the New year at our disposal.
LOVE is giving, a giving of oneself to the other without any calculations of gain or profit. The first reading reminds us of the fact that God gave everything even God's only Son... because God is Love! The Son gave everything even his divinity, because he was Love personified! Jesus was filled with compassion for the people and He reached out to each of them in love, in boundless and unconditional love. The Holy Spirit lives on within us, because the Spirit is the mark of God's love for God's children.
Let's be ready to GIVE, not just from what we have but from what we are...to those around us...beginning with the family, the brothers and sisters who live with us, on a daily basis. Let us learn to give without anyone asking, let us learn to give without calculating, without looking for returns, without asking whether the other merits or not... that is the Love that comes from God!