Just Love

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.”

― Thomas Merton

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O Lord

could it be

that sometimes I get things a little bit backwards?

Could it be that I do not understand

how it really works?

Could it be that while I live in the world of merit

and sacrifice

you simple want me to live in the world of grace?

remind me Lord

that I am called to love people

simply because those people have

happened to be in my path

remind me

that I am called to see the sacred in that person

as it leaks through the cracks and fissures

of failure and addiction

and yes, sometimes, arrogance and apathy

and lord, remind me that the same

sacred presence is in me

and sometimes

leaks through my own fears and needs

and finds its way

to others

as

love

and remind me Lord

that it is as the Sacred (You) in me

and the Sacred in the other meet

and compassion happens

that we are transformed

into light

and love

and we will both know

we are “enough”

we are

children of God