Our Actions of Love

Today's quote comes from Sister M. Francis Warde, our American Foundress.


We should find our hearts so penetrated with the love of God...that our actions are
less performed by ourselves than by the love within us.

Have you ever just done something just for the love of it? Have you ever done a service project that was dull, dirty,or not something you would ordinarily do and found that at the end you were satisfied in a way you usually aren't? Have you ever done a job you didn't like, thought about doing it half way and then did it as if someone was looking over your shoulder at what you did? Each of these might be ways in which we perform an action thinking less about ourselves and more about the other. From this love flows.

For me I do not like emptying the dishwasher. I do it for the love of my community, but I could easily walk away from it and let someone else do it. Another chore for me is taking out the garbage. I don't mind the taking out; it's the collecting I don't care to do. Again, I could skip a room, but I don't. There is more here than my own desires.

How are your actions penetrated with love...that you own comfort is forgotten? What do you dislike to do? How can you renew your commitment to do it with love?

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