The Spiritual Journey - Falling in Love

Somewhere each day we have to fall in love, with someone, something, some moment, event, phrase, word, or sight.  Somehow each day we must allow the softening of the heart.  Otherwise our hearts will move inevitably toward hardness.  We will slowly become cynical without even knowing it—that's where too much of the world is trapped.

So create and discover the “parties of the heart,” the places where we can enjoy and taste the moment—the places where we can give of ourselves freely to what is right in front of us.  If you're not involved in giving your thoughts, your emotions to others, "for-giving" reality, as it were, taking will usually take over.  One style or the other eventually predominates in almost everybody’s life.

Ask God to give you the grace to fall in love with something every day. Then you'll see rightly, because only when we are in love do we understand.  Only when we've given ourselves to reality can we in fact receive reality.

Adapted from Radical Grace, Daily Meditations, p. 84, Day 92 by Richard Rohr.
 
Starter Prayer:
God is not a Being,
God is Being itself.