Don’t forget that you are not alone, and you will never be alone. He is always with you, because heaven is your life if you welcome him. Our God waits for only this. He lives with the great desire that we open the doors to him, so that he can give us his unconditional and faithful love, which never disappoints us.
Since we are all so different, every so often I ask myself how God can love every single one of us with a unique, specific, and personal tenderness. He can, because he even knows every cell in our body. He created us and wanted us. He calls us by name, and we must discover who we are in his eyes: risen, new creatures, who have welcomed the love of God in that grandiose space that is our life; he comes, because he is a God who loves to be welcomed. He stands outside the door of our freedom and knocks. Let us not leave him outside like a beggar; let’s open that door so he can enter!
Pope John Paul II often repeated, “Open, better yet, open wide the doors to Christ!” and our Holy Father Benedict XVI confirmed this saying, “Do not be afraid of Christ. He who lets him enter never loses anything. He gives everything.”… The Lord has placed into our hands the opportunity to live a transparent, joyful life, but to experience this we must have the courage that comes from prayer which illuminates us, the Word of God that instructs and nourishes us, and the Church that accompanies us on our journey.
Mother Elvira Petrozzi
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