Reflection: You are My beloved...

You are so beautiful to Me.  You are precious.  These are God's words to you.  Have you ever pondered how much God loves you?  His love is unconditional.  You are His beloved.  What a beautiful word!  Beloved

How beautiful you are, my friend, how beautiful you are! Song of Songs 4:1  

I have had a glimpse of what it means to be "beloved" with the beautiful gift of a child who has Down Syndrome, Lily Grace.  She is love and her love is unconditional.  She has a pure heart.  She is perfect and she brings and spreads love wherever she goes.  This video captures the essence of her relationship with her little sister Norah.  Two little sisters...precious gifts from God.

Saint Therese, the Little Flower:

"How shall I show my love is proved by deeds?  Well, the little child will strew flowers...he will embalm the Divine Throne with their fragrance, will sing with silvery voice the canticle of love."

"Yes, my Beloved, it is thus that my life's brief day shall be spent before Thee.  No other means have I of proving my love than to strew flowers; that is, to let no little sacrifice escape me, not a look, not a word, to avail of the very least actions and do them for Love.  I wish to suffer for Love's sake and for Love's sake even to rejoice; thus I shall strew flowers.  Not one shall I find without shedding its petals for Thee...and then I will sing.  I will always sing, even if I must gather my roses in the very midst of thorns and the longer and sharper the thorns, the sweeter shall be my song."  

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.  1 John 4:7

How do we get to know God?  By spending time with Him.  Go to Eucharistic Adoration and just sit with Him.  He is waiting for you.  When you sit before the Blessed Sacrament, rays of His love pour out from the Eucharist into your heart.  When you sit with Him, He will speak to you.  Tell Him the desires of your heart. Tell him your pain and sorrow.  He will listen and He will comfort you.  He will heal you and shower you with His love.  

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.  The reason why the world does not know us is it did not know Him.  Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him because we shall see Him as He is.  1 John 3:1-2