"God loves us.

"We can choose to ignore that.

"All the damned do."


More adaptation from: Archbishop Charles J. Chaput's latest best - seller from Doubleday, Render Unto Caesar.

Pages 36 - 37.

"For Christians, reality is grounded in both unity and plurality.

"Personhood, whether we mean the Persons of the Trinity or our human person, is always bound up with relationship.

"God is eternal and unchanging, but he is not static.

"Within the life of the Trinity, there are the Trinitarian missions of the Father loving the Son, the Son loving the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeding from the love between Father and Son -- and all human beings have a mission in the world that reflects that divine love and takes part in that exchange.

"Of course, these are nice ideas.

"Anyone can give them a pious nod.

"Even many Catholics mouth the word love without a clue to what it really implies.

"This is why so much of modern Christian life seems like a bad version of a mediocre Beatles song rather than the morning of Pentecost.

"For a Christian, love is not simply an emotion.

"feelings pass.

"They're fickle, and they often lie.

"Real love is an act of the will; a sustained choice that proves itself not just by what we say but by what we do.

"God loves us.

"We can choose to ignore that.

"All the damned do..."

A good read, and all for around twenty bucks or so!