Focus on Love

Now that we have stepped into Holy Week and already had the readings for Passion Sunday, life can become troublesome...

We are invited into the Life of Christ and His Passion and Death and the reality of how His suffering has saved our lives. By believing in Christ's love for us we can be filled with wonder and gratitude.

This is as it should be and yet...

Focusing on the Love of Christ leaves me with a dilemma of sorts.  Is the emphasis on suffering more important that love?

Perhaps a strange way to look at the Passion of Christ and yet I am moved more when reminded of Christ's love for us, willing to give His life so we might be free.

 Free to be selfish and do what we like?  No, this wonderful gift of freedom teaches us how to love and hopefully love greatly.

There is a book called The Imitation of Christ which is a guide as to how we may and can love with all that we have and are.

I must admit, the invitation to love draws me much more than than suffering.

Of course we know there is suffering involved in loving, yet let's focus on Love!