01/12/2023
Hello, Jesus
The Beginning
I have in my heart the desire to know how to love well
I ask you today to illuminate my heart as you did to SJII.
I want you to reveal to me love just as you thought it
I want to marvel at the things of life, a rainbow, a sunset, all the gifts you make for me.
I want that capacity for wonder to allow me to recognize you in everything, like children who are amazed.
May my body be able to perceive it. For life is full of meaning.
To perceive not only the gift but the giver of the gift, and the love with which it is given to me.
May knowing your original design be a compass that guides me in all my experiences.
I have discovered that knowing how you thought everything generates a radical change in my life, allowing me to discover the beauty and truth of all things.
For your original design is capable of giving meaning to my whole life.
Help me today to discover it and live it.
The original solitude
You have made me discover blessed sadness, which is nothing other than recognizing that nothing in this world can satisfy me.
That what I have been waiting for so long will not fill me.
That when it arrives it will leave me a void, and soon I will want to think about what comes next.
And after that next comes another next, and another next.
What a gift to recognize that I can only rest in you.
That only you can fill me.
That it is no use to gain the whole world if I lose my soul.
What a relief to remember that everything I have I receive from you.
That I alone cannot give myself life, nor do anything. Only receive.
It is for this reason that today I recognize myself as ontologically poor. A needy of your gift.
What a gift to recognize your whim.
It is for this reason, that I receive everything from you, that today I recognize myself as a child.
The original unity
When I look at creation and all that you have made for me, how you have thought of me making me in your image and likeness, I discover that no other being is capable of astonishing you and recognizing you like Man.
It is when I look to one side and discover that you have thought of another person, flesh of my flesh, with this same desire, which sends me back to you, with whom to walk together towards you.
Jesus, thank you for putting someone by my side to live this path to heaven.
Jesus, may I see in her a sign of you, of your promise.
Jesus, help me not to fall into the temptation of putting my hope in her filling my void.
For it is a gift that cannot satisfy me.
And it is a gift to make a path and unite us more to you.
Jesus, may I recognize that she is the one who must lead me to heaven and I to her
Jesus, may I see our differences as a path of salvation, and not of condemnation.
Jesus, may I know the spousal dimension, that we have been created for giving.
Thank you for revealing to me what we are: two infinities that meet with two limits. Two infinitely in need of loving and being loved, who meet with two fragile and limited capacities to love.
And so you reveal to us that on the horizon of a greater love we neither devour each other in pretense nor resign ourselves but walk towards fullness, of which the other is a sign.
The original innocence
Jesus, give me today the capacity to see this need for you, that original solitude that tells me I am made for heaven; also to see the call to unity and communion to which you call me through giving myself to another person.
Give me that capacity to see it day by day, that innocence that was at the beginning to see love just as you thought it.
