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SUMMARY:Blessed Madeleine Delbrel
DESCRIPTION:WHEREVER LOVE IS PRESENT\nFrom the writing of Blessed Madeleine Delbrêl 2\n◊◊◊\nAnywhere we are\, God is there\, too. The space where we join him is the\nplace of our love\, a love that does not want to be separated from God\, that wants\nto encounter God. Whoever has not tried to know who Jesus is – truly\, fully\,\npresently – will not desire him. He will desire him less than a child desires an\norange from the grocery store. \nBut those who have struggled to climb toward the mystery of God\, who\nthought him possible\, who believed him possible\, who\, in the end\, believed him\nto be true\, who found the joy of joys in this truth; those who had to make room\nin themselves for still more joy in knowing that this mystery was made\nperceptible to the eyes of men in a man who was both man and God; those who\nknow that this man will remain with them until the end of time\, with his body\,\nwith his blood\, with his glory\, those who believed and who still believe in all\nthis\, we who believe it – will we lack the desire to find him wherever he says he\ncan be found? To knock down or pierce through all the obstacles that would\nkeep us from being with him forever\, ever more deeply? It is this desire that\nmakes prayer and that makes it anywhere. Wherever love is present\, it carries\nwithin itself this desire. To love God enough to want to be with him\, to carry\nwithin ourselves the desire of this love\, gives us strength enough to cut through\neven the hardest\, most hectic of lives\, so that in prayer we can reach the One we\nlove. \nA few minutes of such prayer will give us to God and give us God more\nthan hours of powerful meditation if they are not preceded by a free and living\ndesire. The retreat to the desert can be…at the end of the day\, after we have\nspent all day “digging” a well toward these few brief moments; in contrast\, this\nsame desert could be without retreat if we put off our desire to meet the Lord.\nOur comings and goings – and not only the big ones\, but also those we make\nfrom one room to the next – the moments when we are required to wait…are\nmoments of prayer prepared for us\, as long as we are prepared for them. To\nwaste them through lack of preparation can rightly be called a small fault. But\nif one day we find that\, with the Lord\, it is not a question of sin but one of love\,\nperhaps we will realize that we have been strange lovers. \n2 Delbrêl\, Madeleine. The Dazzling Light of God. Trans. Mary Dudro Gordon. San Francisco: Ignatius Press\,\n2023. 119-120.
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