“Communion with God in prayer is the primary way for us to receive His generous love and mercy, and to learn to love ourselves in ordered ways so that we can give of ourselves in truly generous ways…It can be helpful to ask the Lord who He wants us to love more generously and how. It is important to spend daily time with the Lord in silence, so that we can receive all that He has for us, and so that we will know how He wants us to pray for and to serve others.”
Catherine Lynn Forsythe in “Receiving and Giving God’s Generous Love” in Under His Mercy: Newsletter of the Franciscan Sisters (Spring 2008).