Written by our Lay Leader, Doug
Wisdom has been called the art of living well. God’s wisdom might be called the art of loving well. For we can’t live well if we don’t love well.
Love is central to life. God is love and so we must have God at our center if we want to live well, to live life fully. Without God, we are without love.
Love is divine and thus to love is to be in the presence of God. God woos us with His love, He draws us to Himself, and He invites us to fall in love with Him. Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe (1907-1991) explains what this experience is like:
“Nothing is more practical than
finding God, that is, than
Falling in Love
in a quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination,
will affect everything.
It will decide
what will get you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read, whom you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.
Fall in love, stay in love,
and it will decide everything.”