Respond with Love

  After journaling in Adoration today, I read this bible verse printed at the bottom of my notebook page, 

"If you want to know what God wants you to do - ask Him, and He will gladly tell you." James 1:5 

I put a question mark next to that verse. 

Next I opened my Chiara Luce Prayer book and began reading. 

Everything I had been journaling about suddenly made sense. 

Let me explain...

I didn't think I would find answers to what I was journaling about. 

I didn't know how to respond... 

I simply opened up my book where my book marker was and began reading. 

I did not expect a response because I did not know how to ask. 

I read,  "Respond to God's love by loving." 

I continued reading:

"Chiara Luce therefore inserted herself into a dynamic relationship of reciprocal love with God: She handed herself over with an act of complete trust in his love, and He manifested signs of his love to her."  

I was receiving answers to questions I didn't know I had. 

And just when I thought I had all the answers speaking directly to my heart I read this:

"You need to have the courage to put aside ambitions and plans that destroy the real meaning of life, which is to believe in God's love and that's all." Blessed Chiara Luce Badano 

I had to reread that quote, again and again. 

Chiara Luce answered my questions after praying with James 1:5.

It was unbelievable and to take it to the next level, I realized I had two book markers marked in my book.

I had read today where the first book marker was. 

I truly believe that I was meant to reread those words/quotes!

Thank you, God!  

I, too, want to respond to Love Himself, by loving. 

My prayer is "To know the breadth, length, heights and depths of love." 

Image by: Jon Tyson