D0 you want to love the Lord more? Do you want this Advent-Christmastide period to be a time of renewal in Christian discipleship? Then let God love you more!
In Advent we speak of making space within so that the Lord can find a welcome, an openness, and thus he "rebirths" in us. What forms that space, that welcome is the experience of a love that frees us to trust, to let go, to surrender.
Angela of Foligno, the Franciscan saint, wife and mother, felt Christ say to her one day: "You create the capacity and I will make myself a torrent within you" - a torrent of light and love and joy. Our love for God will always be a response to a love eternally present.
The key is to let that love stretch the heart and increase our capacity for God's self-giving.
Then the gift of divine love can grow and the depth of our response can expand.
God loves all his lovers first.
