Holy Spirit, help me put love into action, whether giving or receiving it...

Tobit 2:9-3:1

Tobit’s interaction with his wife reminds us that in sickness and in health love is to be  our operating system.  Too often in my interpersonal relationships, especially within family, instead of receiving the gifts and services of others without judgement, I question them out of my woundedness and lack of trust in their goodness.  The rebuke of Tobit’s wife, “Where are your acts of charity?” rings down through the centuries of human society.  Where are my acts of charity; do I ignore or growl at acts of charity, or do I perceive and receive the gifts and services of others? Do I deliberately do acts of charity? Lord, help me put love into action whether giving or receiving it.  

The hearts of the just are secure, trusting in the Lord.  (Psalm 112)  
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As the objects of God’s love, men and women become subjects of charity, they are called to make themselves instruments of grace, so as to pour forth God’s charity and to weave networks of ‘grace’ (charis).
Benedict XVI. Caritas in Veritate  
                                                                                                                
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