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Refuge of Creation

13th Thursday in the Ordinary Time


TODAY'S GOSPEL (Luke 13:18-21), the Lord described before the disciples the all-encompassing love that the Christian community is called to be for the rest of the Creation. This love is not our own but an offshoot of the seed of love that God has placed in our hearts at the time we were conceived. The God of love calls us to be children of love, elder creatures called to take care of the Father's creation.

As we can see, God's love is not meant to be exclusive, neither it is meant to be confined to ourselves. The God who loves all the Creation called us to love those outside ourselves too. Even married couples are not meant to confine their conjugal love between each other. They too are called to love their children and the community outside their homes.

It is this expansive love that tells us how God of love cannot help but love us. It is simply in his nature to love. God is the Father who nurtures us no matter what. God is the Son who believes in our goodness no matter what. God is the Spirit who supports us towards holiness and loving no matter what.

LORD, thank you for revealing to us the unimaginable reach of God's love.
Thank you for the limitless love that you love me without conditions.
Thank you for revealing to us the silent nurture that God is working in our lives.
Help us recognize the fact of being loved by no less than God himself.
Help us respond to that love with gratitude,
And with joyful willingness to be conduits of that love
So that it may flow from God through us,
And towards my brothers and sisters in this world. Amen.
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