"God's love calls us to move beyond fear. We ask God for the courage to abandon ourselves unreservedly, so that we might be molded by God's grace, even as we cannot see where that path may lead us." St. Ignatius Loyola

Here is mystery! God, who is love, calls us to become perfected thru love. What holds us back is fear of the unknown. Foreseeing this, St. John in his Letter tells us that perfect love casts out fear. The more we live in love, the more we are becoming the person we are meant to be. For if God is love and we are to be with God eternally, then it is only by becoming a loving person in all we do, can that expectation be fulfilled. It is only by God's grace can we grow in love. The two commandments to love God and to love our neighbor are the paths God sets before us.