Charity

Love  

This morning as I was glancing through the writing of Fulton J. Sheen on Charity, I was fascinated by the way he presented about Love. Here I will like to share with you the abstract of the Address delivered on February 4, 1945. Hope you too enjoy and gain some insight by it.  

“If, then, you bear a hatred toward anyone, overcome it by doing that person a favour. You can begin to like classical music only by listening to it, and you can make friends out of your enemies only by practising charity. The reason you love someone else is because that person supplies your lack or fills up your void. You find in the other something you do not have: beauty, wealth, virtue, kindliness, etc.  

But God does not love you because you supply His lack. He finds you lovable not because, of and by yourself, you are lovable, but because He puts some of His love in you. As a mother loves her child because her nature is in and his coloured pattern is in it, so God loves you because His Power or His nature or His Love is in some way in you.  

If, then, God’s love for you makes you lovable, why not put some of your love in other people and make them lovable. Where you do not find love, put it there. Love therefore all things, and all persons in God.  

So long as there are poor, I am poor:
So long as there are prisons, I am a prisoner:
So long as there are sick, I am weak:
So long as there is ignorance, I must learn:
So long as there is hate, I must love.”  

Thank You