“The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. (John 19:35)
O John, why did you stay? Why did you stay to the bitter end? Why did you stay until his dying breath, when all the others had fled? Was it because of love? Was it because you knew that love is stronger than fear? Was it because you knew that perfect love casts out fear?
Teach me how to stay as well. Teach me how to believe in love. Teach me how to dwell in the house of love rather than the house of fear. Teach me to look deeply into the eyes of Love and glean all that there is to glean from its delicious and delightful fruit. Teach me to stand when I’m tempted to run away, teach me to stop when I am always on the go, teach me to listen when I am constantly speaking, and teach me to believe that perfect love always has ahold of me even when I am filled with fear and doubt. Only then will I know what you know. Only then will I know that I, too, am the disciple whom Jesus loved.
“Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you. If his Majesty revealed his love to us by doing and suffering such amazing things, how can you expect to please him by words alone.” ~St. Teresa of Avila
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