“Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What are you in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything.
It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evening, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy or gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”
Today I am celebrating my 19th wedding anniversary with joy and thankfulness for the ways my wife, Jenni, has encouraged my love relationship with God. I see firsthand her her deep love for Him and how His love shines everywhere in her life.
Pedro Arrupe, S.J. (1907-1991) as quoted by Richard Rohr in Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (New York: Crossroad, 2003) 122.