“If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
In today’s post I am sharing some excerpts from a beautiful book, Seeing What Is Sacred by Ken Gire. It is a book meant to help us become “more spiritually sensitive to the everyday moments of life.”
Gire writes, “The closer I get to the end of my life, it seems the only question that matters. Is the life I am living pleasing to God?
The question will keep you up nights. And it should. As we pull covers to our chin and settle into our pillow, that’s the question that should bring our day into the presence of God for His scrutiny. Did the life I lived today please you, God?”
Gire goes on to point out that there is really only one question to ask ourselves before dropping off to sleep each night. “Only one. Have I loved well?”
He then quotes Saint Augustine. “When asked the secret of living the Christian life, Augustine replied: ‘Love God, and do as you please.” Gire says, “The thought of that is both liberating and confining. Liberating because it means we are free to do whatever we want. Confining because it means our love for God sets the boundaries of that freedom. It guides every thought, every action, every conversation. And it does every minute of the day, every day of our life. Instead of a Byzantine complexity of laws to regulate the details of our life, we have only one. The love of God. When that is the heart of who we are, it changes what we do. And it changes something else. How we will be judged.”
He continues, “St. John of the Cross once said that ‘at the evening of our day we shall be judged by our loving.’ As we look back over our day, what we have done is not as important has how we have done it.”
Are you living a life pleasing to God? Tonight before you drop of to sleep ask yourself this one question. Have I loved well today? If not, plan to love better tomorrow.
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