Blog Post 3/20/2024 – Authentic Love, Wasting Time and Being Tamed

 

Bishop Barron offers us the profound insight on LOVE, “In its essence, love is an act of the will—more precisely, the willing of the good of the other as other. To love is really to want what is good for someone else and then to act on that desire.
 

Real love is a leaping outside of the narrow confines of my needs and desires, and an embrace of the other’s good for the other’s sake. It is an escape from the black hole of the ego, which tends to draw everything around it into itself.”

 

In Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince we read,  “It is the time you wasted with you rose that makes it important.”  The fox taught the Little Prince the meaning of “tame”.  Profound insights for us as we examine our prayer life: “wasted time & being tamed.”

 

Love is an act of the will, therefore it is important for us to allow God to “tame” us and our response should be to “waste” time with The Lord.

 

May God Be Praised.