Tuesday, February 5th

All life is from your Heavenly Father: there is no living creature in Heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth which does not draw its being from Him.

And all love is of His Being: so all that loves in the spirit of self-giving is of Him. And it issues from His Presence, to bind all creation to Himself and to all parts of itself in joyful union. To man He has given that freedom to choose his allegiance, to have knowledge of power and freely to engage the power he is given.

But where love is rejected or changed from dynamic self-giving to selfish uses of power, there is failure in growth, stunting and corruption, pain. And the pain falls on all in ways great and small. I came to experience the world's pain, bear and transform it, use it to meet and confront sin's deadly power.

All who offer themselves, their lives, their love and their being to the Father's unceasing, purposeful love are conjoined with Our healing, enwholing power in redeeming, sanctifying, perfecting.