You know the way for me
You know the time
Into your hands
I trustingly place mine 
Your plan is perfect 
Born of perfect love
You know the way for me
 That is enough 

April 2021

          What’s love got to do with it? I’m not talking about Tina Turner here. I’m talking about love and faith; love and God; love and sacrifice; love and discipline; love in all forms. Love can take on many different forms and can be perceived and given in many, many ways. The problem with being human is that if love comes to us differently than we think it should, we don’t consider it love, we consider it the opposite or something, anything other than love. We base this upon the love modeled by our parents or guardians, we base this on social media, we base this on our experiences growing up, and we base this on our faith. Love can be complicated and messy and down right hard, but I think God truly intended it to be a very simple thing. Love others fully and completely with all that you have and all that you are, right? How do we accomplish this? By loving God fully and completely with all that we have and all that we are. Self-love is the greatest threat to true love, pure love, Godly love and we all struggle with it. We don’t want to be hurt, we don’t want to be vulnerable, and we don’t want to be taken advantage of, yet we must if we choose to follow the path of Jesus and His mother, our mother, Mary. To deny that the suffering, death, hurt, and vulnerability has anything to do with love, is to deny the crucifixion and path of Jesus. If we wish to love like Him and to love Him, these really uncomfortable and painful experiences will happen to us. Jesus promises us that these experiences are not without merit and they will not go unnoticed at the end of our time here on earth. This type of love is not something to be fearful of, it is not a love that should be discounted as evil, and it is not a love that comes easily. We must be open and engaged with our Lord and our Mother enough for us to obtain the grace to live out this supernatural love. We still have very fresh in our minds the death and the Resurrection on this 3^rd Sunday of Easter. Let us come to believe that death to self-love will help us to attain that same resurrection when our time here is done. And in that moment, the moment of our own resurrection into Heaven, that’s when the joy of all the saints and angels and Heavens and earth will fill us. Let us be joyful now with the hope of this end. So, what’s love got to do with it? EVERYTHING!

I, then, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love.
Ephesians 4:1-2




Submitted by an anonymous Schoenstatt  member