•Then Peter responded, “Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?” (Acts 10:47)
•Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds… (Psalm 98:1a)
•In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us. (1 John 4:10a)
•As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. (John 15:9)
•It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you. (John 15:16a)

 

•Do you feel loved by God?
•Did you do anything to earn this love?
•Is there anything that you can do to prevent God’s love for you?
•How do you, “Remain in my Love”?

Remember how St. Augustine tells us about seeking God in many places and eventually finding Him within himself. Do you suppose it is of little importance that a soul which is often distracted should come to understand this truth and to find that, in order to speak to the Eternal Father and to take its delight in Him, it has no need to go to heaven and speak in a loud voice? However quietly we speak, He is so near that he will hear us: we need no wings to go in search of Him but have only to find a place where we can be alone and look upon Him present within us. Nor need we feel strange in the presence of so kind a Guest; we must talk to Him very humbly, as we should to our father, ask Him for things as we should ask a father, tell Him our troubles…Remember how important it is for you to have understood this truth—that the Lord is within us and that we should be there with Him.<sup>1



1</sup>Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection, translated by E. Allison Peers, Image Books, Doubleday; New York, 1991, p. 184, 5