I was driving along the
highway, and started to think about the sorrow in the world. Mostly I was thinking
of all the "little" sorrows in people's lives, not the huge tragedies
and travesties that also abound. Everyone's life is full of sorrow...because
this isn’t Heaven, after all!
But it made me sad anyway.

What I’m trying to say, I think, is that even though we are the Body of Christ, we are not fully united here on earth because of our fallen human nature and our separation from God and from His will. It's a lonely place, and people are always looking for someone to be their companion, one way or another, aren't they? But Christ is the only perfect companion, and the perfection of that relationship will only be realized for us in Heaven...
At least, that's how it seems
to me. So when I see people “looking for love”, but failing to realize that
their first love needs to be the Lord, I am saddened. I just see all those
people...full of sorrow...but in some ways not even aware of the sadness of
their lives. They don’t know how far they are from Christ, and they don’t know
that the path to holiness – and therefore true happiness – lies with Him.
My spiritual director noted
that the masters of the spiritual life all agree that, apart from Christ, we
grow increasingly apart from one another, isolated in our own little worlds.
Conversely, the more closely each of us conforms himself to Christ, the closer
we come to one another; it’s like spokes on a wheel: are we approaching the
rim, or the Hub?
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.
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