wanting to love is not enough. be one with the other. to share their destiny. to let contact with them enrich you. give up the notion that you must always have something to give. Christ is the leaven. it must keep its strength when mixing, kneading into the dough. be more cunning than the serpent by being filled with Christ. become involved. become one. and become more deeply by being utmost rooted in Christ. in the faith that upholds you and gives you strength.
"You have only One Model: Jesus. Do not look for another. Like Jesus during his life on earth, make yourself all things to all people: an Arab in the midst of Arabs, a nomad among nomads, a worker among working people, but above all be human among your brothers and sisters. Do not think that living among people will hinder your life of union with God. Do not set up barriers between the world and yourself...
Immerse yourself deeply among people by sharing their life, by friendship and by love. Give yourself to them completely, like Jesus who came to serve and not to be served; you, too, become one with them. Then you will be like leaven which must lost itself in the dough to make it rise."
-Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus
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