“You can awaken love even more, so that it may inundate you completely. This is what love wants, and for this it seeks you” (Interior Word).
Love has no limits, because “God is love” (1 Jn 4:16). This is how Sacred Scripture describes it to us. There is nothing more important than to live in love, “for love covers a multitude of sins” (1 Pt 4:8).
“The love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit” (Rom 5:5), who cries out “Abba, Father” (Gal 4:6).
“At the evening of life you will be judged on love” – St. John of the Cross tells us, and St. Augustine points it out to us as the path to freedom: “Love and do what you will”.
And if that were not enough, St. Paul exclaims: “Though I command languages both human and angelic – if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a cymbal clashing” (1 Cor 13:1).
To sing the hymn to charity means to glorify our Father, and in this we will never fully exceed. Thus, the Heavenly Father invites us to love, meeting Him in the deepest essence of His being.
Love awakens true life in us, and our Father wants to see us as living witnesses of His love. Love makes us attentive to meet God, to see people in His light and to follow the motions of the Holy Spirit.
Love seeks us ceaselessly and knocks at our door, wanting us to let it in. Once it has found us, it no longer lets us go until it has flooded us, so that it can flow through us into this world like a torrent of living water (cf. Jn 7:38).
“What I command you is to love one another”, the Lord exhorts us (Jn 15:17).
“Do you love me more than these?” -Jesus asks Peter; to which Peter replies, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you” (Jn 21:15,17).
We can awaken to love, day after day, hour after hour… “Anyone who has will be given more” (Mt 13:12).