![]() ![]() With this came the need to worship, to adore. No human creature could receive or contain so vast a flood of love and joy as I often felt after the birth of my child. The final object of this love and gratitude was God. Forster had made the physical world come alive for me and had awakened in my heart a flood of gratitude. The very word “diligo,” the Latin word used for “love,” means “I prefer.” It was all very well to love God in His works, in the beauty of His creation which was crowned for me by the birth of my child. ![]() Sooner or later one is given a chance to prove his love. One of the disconcerting facts about the spiritual life is that God takes you at your word. ![]() “Thou wouldst not seek Him if thou hadst not already found Him,” Pascal says, and it is true too that you love God if you want to love Him. The problem is, how to love God? We are only too conscious of the hardness of our hearts, and in spite of all that religious writers tell us about feeling not being necessary, we do want to feel and so know that we love God. ![]() “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind.” This is the first Commandment. 131-158 of the Harper San Francisco edition of The Long Loneliness published in 1997 and introduced by Robert Coles. By Dorothy Day (1897-1980) - New York, New York, USA ![]()
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