How to love God
He is not too weary... to reveal
himself to us as our one hope of salvation.
God alone can teach us to love God. All we can do is
prepare the inflammable substance as best we can and, as the physicists say
nowadays, wait for the chain reaction. All we can do, within the limitations of
our miserable egotism, is listen for and help along that feeble cry that
struggles to say, Father! Abba!
The conversion of the mind is difficult enough, but how
much more so the conversion of the heart! For the love of God is total,
embracing all things, and jealous; it is at once personal and transcendent. It
beckons us to that path which leads to his heart of hearts, for God is love. He
is not too weary after all the miracles, or all the miseries in which we
founder, or all the extremities through which our fortunes lead us, to reveal
himself to us as our one hope of salvation.
PAUL CLAUDEL
Paul Claudel (d. 1955) was a poet, a playwright, a
diplomat,
and a member of the French Academy.
and a member of the French Academy.