Love Makes the Loved One Worthy

“What we are asked to do is to love; and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbor worthy if anything can. Indeed, that is one of the most significant things about the power of love. There is no way under the sun to make a person worthy of love except by loving them. As soon as they realize they are loved – if they are not so weak that they can no longer bear to be loved – they will feel themselves instantly becoming worthy of love. They will respond by drawing a mysterious spiritual value out of their own depths, a new identity called into being by the love that is addressed to them.”

Thomas Merton
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Photo: Wind-carved ice on The Loch in Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, December 14, 2015

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