These are the days when we pause to remember how much we are loved.  What can I do for him in return?  Nothing can ever be enough.  But that is the way the human person thinks, not the way God thinks.  God does not love me in order for me to return that love.  God loves because God IS love.  God cannot do anything else.  I cannot hurt God by not loving in return.  In reality, I only hurt myself, for I am made to be happy and to love unselfishly is the key to that happiness.  I delude myself if I think otherwise.

Help me to love, Jesus.  Help me to love because I want to, I am drawn to, and not because it is expected of me.  Help those you are calling to such a consecrated love to be open to the invitation and to answer wholeheartedly.  Help me to answer wholeheartedly too, all the days of my life.

A blessed Triduum, everyone!