Put Love first in all things

It has taken me quite awhile to share this, and somehow this Sunday morning I managed to find a good 10 minutes to put pen to paper, or rather keyboard to computer. This phrase:"Put Love first in all things" was shared with me by one of the priests during reconcilliation the night prior to Maundy Thursday. It places alot of things in perspective for me. In the readings that night, St john says to put God first in everything that we do. This is something that I have been guilty of not doing. I have allowed the busyness of everyday to rule my life and have been a slave to life.


Father shared that God is Love, and so to put God first in all things is really asking us to put Love first. It will be a challenge for me since I have trouble placing God as the master of my life, though I sincerely and wholeheartedly have that desire to, but I find myself being drawn into the worries and concerns of this world ever too often, and losing that focus on God, on Love.


Since that healing and enlightening session that night, I have set out to put Love first in all things. It has been a trying journey though, since I have no control over the actions and words of others. Also, as I look back at these times, I realised that I may not have responded in the most loving manner. It is in these moments that I feel I need to focus more on "Put Love first in all things". This has been my personal motto during this Easter time and I pray that as the matters of this world overwhelms me, calling for my attention, I will still be able to include Love in my dealings with people and in situations, no matter how impossible it may seem.


May God be our strength and may His grace sustains us always, that we may put Him first in all things, with the assurance that He will make all things right in His Time.