“...All disasters stem from us. Why is there war? Perhaps because now and then
I might be inclined to snap at my neighbor. Because I and my neighbor and
everyone else do not have enough love. . . . Yet there is love bound up inside
us, and if we could release it into the world, a little each day, we would be
fighting war and everything that comes with it.”
We are created for love and until we return to love as the
root source of life, we will continue to unravel. If we want a different world,
we must become a different people. Perhaps that is why Jesus left us the law of
love, that we may live from a deeper center, a new mind and heart; to become a
new people, to co-create a new world of justice and peace.
May 2015 be the Year of Love.
[Ilia Delio, OSF, a Sister of St. Francis of Washington, D.C., is Haub Director of Catholic
Studies and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her recent
publications include From Teilhard to Omega: Cocreating an Unfinished
Universe and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the
Power of Love.]
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