Fiat
Mary said yes for the whole human race. Each one of us must echo that yes in our own lives. We are all asked if we will surrender what we are, our humanity, our flesh and blood, to the Spirit of Love to fill the emptiness formed by the particular shape of our life.
What we shall be asked to give is our flesh and blood, our daily life – our thoughts, or service to one another, our affections and loves, our words, our intellect, our waking, working and sleeping, our ordinary human joys and sorrows-to God.
To surrender all that we are, as we are, to the Spirit of Love in order that our lives may bear Love into the world – that is what we shall be asked.
Caryll Houselander
Love changes the way we see ourselves and others. We feel beautiful when we are loved, and to evoke an awareness of beauty in another is to give them a precious gift they will never lose. When we affirm another’s beauty, we affirm something that cannot be owned or drawn into the grid of small mindedness or emotional need. There is profound nobility in beauty that can elevate a life, bring it into harmony with the artistry of its eternal source and destination.
John O’Donohue