Msgr. Don reflects on the importance of simply being true to yourself.

Good morning. I want to talk to you for a minute about love, but most especially about the way God loves. There's something in every human being that is designed to be loved in order to flourish, in order to develop, in order to become what it is. I think of all the things when I think about how God loves me. It's that he sees to the heart of me and he finds something in there that is so beautiful, that is so important to him. Not just that he did something beautiful when he created each of us, but that he created us for a purpose. That purpose is to be a source of something to the people around us. What is it? To be the same source to others that God is to us. 

That's why at the heart, I think of the Christian message. If you don't feel this thing coming to you from God, if you don't know what that sense is, that, hey, you know what? It's not that I'm perfect. It's not that I'm better than I was a few moments ago. No, it's just that in my essence, I am goodness, I am goodness. I am something wonderful. I don't see it. And even trying to see it, it goes to the extremes of it being “I'm nobody or I'm the best thing in the world”, you know, we just don't have that kind of balance. But when you think about what it means to feel the love of God, it has something to do with a confidence in not your performance or not what you've achieved or will achieve, but in your essence, just me. I'm beautiful. And when that's there, it is like a default. It's like when you're not worrying about evaluating what you've been doing or seeing wow look how much I've changed without that kind of, you know, yin yang kind of thing.

No, just being is enough. Being myself is enough. No action required, no deep reflection at that moment. Just an awareness of something that feels so natural and so good. Just feels good to have that kind of awareness of a lover. And that's our God.

Have a good day.

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