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Love is the fullness of the listening heart.

After days of trust, surrender, silence, and hidden fidelity, the soul is ready for the deepest truth of the spiritual life: all love begins in God. We receive His love first, and grace teaches the heart how to offer that love back.

This is the quiet beginning of charity, born from the love that created us and holds us in every moment.

And when the heart receives God’s love, it begins to move outward. This is why Jesus gives the two great commandments: to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and to love your neighbor as yourself. The love we return to God becomes the love we extend to others.

Charity is always relational. It draws us into God and sends us toward those He places in our path.

Before we ever turned toward Him, God loved us into existence. We would not even be here had His love not first willed our being. And in every moment we live, He sustains us in that same love.

Within the Trinity, love is alive and eternal. The Father loves the Son. The Son loves the Father. The Holy Spirit is the living bond of love between them, unity so complete it is one God.

This divine exchange is not distant. Through Christ, we are drawn into it. The Spirit pours the love of God into our hearts. We receive the love that creates and sustains us, and we return it to God through adoration, gratitude, and obedience.

This is why love is a theological virtue. It is participation in God’s own life. It is the movement of divine love flowing in us, through us, and back to God again.

To welcome Christ at Christmas is to welcome Love Himself, to enter the life of the Trinity, and to allow God’s love to shape every movement of the heart.

Bernard teaches that the entire spiritual journey is ordered toward love.

For him, love grows as the heart learns to rest in God’s goodness, trust His presence, and offer itself in return. True love begins with gratitude, deepens into desire, and matures into generous self giving.

Bernard emphasizes that we do not begin this journey. God initiates it. He stirs the heart with His own love and gives the

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