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Main Commandement

For that reason GOD gives man this love through the HOLY SPIRIT.
And that He gives it, we have seen from the lives of many Saints.

Let us take an example of a young loving couple. We meet them in
a café. We watch them giving each another loving glances while
becoming totally engrossed. We watch these two lovers behaving
very amorously (like children). Yet hardly anyone of those present
takes offence at it. On the contrary, knowing smiles can be seen
flitting across the faces of those present, meaning roughly: they are
just lovers.

But my dearly beloved, it is exactly the same with the love of GOD.
A quick thought of Him can already bring a person out of his shell
and make everything around him disappear. But why, I ask, are
these lovers only seldom given this knowing smile? They receive, in-
stead, a slighting, contemptuous smile and even worse. How much
more should one understand them of all people, as they have the
very best, the most handsome, most loving and most perfect Lover,
who outdoes every human lover!

Love can supply with blood everything rigid and every outward
appearance. Even if a person is of low or noble birth, no matter
whether he is a workman, professor or manager, they all become a
plaything of love. Love makes men youthful, or rather: in their
hearts they become like children. And this very innocence is the
measure of true love. In the same way and even more so this is the
case if one is falling in love with GOD. Has GOD Himself in His love
towards us men not become a Child, a Child in Bethlehem? Re-
member JESUS’ words: „Unless you become like little children, you
shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

My dearly beloved, it is so difficult, nay, altogether impossible to
describe or explain this love. Were we able to make it known to you,
I think that all men would be infected with it to GOD’s delight and to
the pleasure of the affected mankind. This would then also spread
to creation and so on.

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