View from the Window

I'm a fan of windows.

That last post from Matthew Kelly had me constantly thinking about being re-sensitized to the fact that every day if a gift from God.   

 

As I was driving home from dropping off two friends at their dorms, I opened my car’s windows to the cool rain rushing down and kissing the earth.  I stuck my hand out I smiled like a goof as I imagined Jesus kissing my hand through the rain and cool wind. Meanwhile Audrey Assad was playing and I thought about love being planted deeply.  JPII’s words ring so true about where our deepest desires come from:

"It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you dream of happiness, he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be grounded down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal."

It’s so comforting to know where everything comes from; it’s so nice to know that there is a way, a truth, and a life.  It’s so sweet to know that there is a perfect love that exists for humanity.  While I can only experience little cute dates while I’m alive on earth, I am so happy knowing that I can one day participate in the wedding feast where my heart will truly understand in total fullness about where it came from and where it reaches.  Sweet apokaradokia.  

Love planted deeply becomes what it ought to be.

 

~Esa Cita