I love you for you.

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Happy Valentine's Day, dear ones!  May you be full of God's love today and every day!

I'd like to share part of a meditation from the book Mother Teresa's Secret Fire by Joseph Langford.  It is appropriate all of us, no matter what our state or vocation in life: 

 

"I love you for you; I love you because you are.  I love you for the beauty and dignity my Father gave you, creating you in his own image.  It is a dignity you have forgotten, a beauty you have tarnished by ego and sin.  But I love you as you are, infinitely, completely, without reserve; and I have shed my blood to win you back."

St. Valentine, pray for us, that we may have the same zeal and love for God that you did.  Help us to satiate the thirst of Christ for our love.