Love
the Lord your God with all your heart (your ability to choose for yourself) and
all your mind (your ability to train thoughts and feelings) and all your
strength (your ability to act on your choices) and all your soul (your deepest,
truest being).
And
love your neighbour just as you love yourself; all the families of the earth,
as your own family.
Everything
else is commentary on these two greatest insights.
But
know that, whether you do so willingly or not, eventually, nature and God will
conspire to strip you of your heart and mind and strength, till only your soul—your
one, unspeakably precious soul—remains.
For
in this process—which looks to the world like a successive, accumulative, series
of failings, fallings-short, sins against your humanity—your soul is, in fact,
being made whole.
Your
capacity to love, both God and neighbour, is being brought to fulfilment, as
all else is consumed by Love.
You,
already a saint, will have stumbled into the process of becoming a Saint.
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