For Sunday, February 10: Resolve to Love

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. Thomas Merton

If we love, truly love, someone then we will love them for who they are and not who we think they should be. We will not try to transform the person into our ideas of what they should do, be, look like, etc. If we find ourselves try to twist someone we say we love into our own image then perhaps we should ask ourselves, "Do we really love them?" and if so, "Why do we love them?" We need to be resolved to love others well. Loving well means we let them be themselves as they are letting us be ourselves.

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