Monday, February 22, 2021

Dear God,

Mother Teresa told the sisters of the Missionaries of Charity to be "carriers of God's love."  Love was what they offered best in the slums of Calcutta and subsequent ministries in others nations.

I couldn't read her thoughts, prayers and letters without reflecting upon that question.  Am I a carrier of God's love?  Do I carry your love to all others around me?  Certainly to people I love close to me but as Jesus once said, "Even the poor do that."  Do I embody your love?  Do I carry it and give it away?  Am I full of your love?

What good does it do for you to love us if all we do is hoard that love within ourselves and fail to share it with the world around us?  Isn't that like "building bigger barns to store more?"  I don't want to be a love hoarder; I want your love to be fluid coming in and going out of me.  I want to share your generous, gracious love with everyone.  

Help me

live like you,

Loving God;

help me

fill up

with love,

then let it

spill over

onto others.

So many

need your love

right now.

They are desperate.

Show me

the way.

Give me

your people

to love,

all your people.

Yours, Andrea