Merciful Love
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I knew several weeks ago when my friend and noted
author, Anne Costa, posted the following excerpt on her website, that there
would be a perfect time for me to share it directly with my readers.
Today is that time.
What an ideal and complimentary
reflection to share on Divine Mercy Sunday:
"We have been trained in the habit of looking at
our dark side, our ugliness, and not at the purifying Sun, Light of Light,
which He is, Who changes the dust we are into pure gold.
We think about examining ourselves, yet we do not
think before the examination, during the examination or after the examination
to plunge ourselves, with all our miseries into the consuming and transforming
furnace of His Heart, which is open to us through a single humble act of
Confidence.
I am not telling you ‘You believe too much in your
own wretchedness’. We are much more wretched than we ever realize. But I am
telling you ‘You do not believe enough in merciful love’.
We must have confidence, not in spite of our
miseries, but because of them, since it is misery which attracts mercy.
Oh, this word, mercy – misericordia – miseris cor
dare, a Heart which gives itself to the miserable, a Heart which nourishes
itself on miseries by consuming them. Meditate on this word."
(I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux by
(I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux by