That's Amore!

"May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in."

"We cannot all do great things...but we can do small things with great love."

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

-Mother Teresa

What is the common theme in these three quotes? Love, of course :) Love might be my favoritest word in the whole wide world. Whether I use it in English, Latin, Italian, or Spanish, it is just the most beautiful, meaningful word you can say. 

What is love? (baby, don't hurt meeee) Love is when you look past yourself to see, to help, to serve, and to give of yourself to someone you might not even know. Love, in action, is charity.

I pray to God everyday that He help me to love one more person each day. My goal in life, is to love EVERYONE, no matter what.

Love is one of the most powerful things that govern people's lives. You can see the effects of it everywhere...You can see love in the homes and soup kitchens and places of work for the homeless; you can see love in the mission trips all over the world administering to the sick and poor; you can see love in the soldiers fighting overseas who serve and protect their country and their loved ones back home; and you can see love when a young couple holds their baby girl for the first time.

....But you can also see where love is lacking. It's everywhere. Selfishness, profanity, disrespect, hate, etc. It's heart-wrenching to see what the absence of love does to this world.

If everyone truly loved everyone, I'm thoroughly convinced the corruption and sin of the world would be decreased an INSANE amount. 

If everyone truly loved everyone, God would be the center of everyone's lives. Think about it- if you really loved someone, you'd see them for who they are, you'd see their inherent goodness, their virtues (but also their vices, in the right way), and you'd see the light of God in their existence. 

Maybe it's just obvious to me, but if everyone lived with love, selflessness, humility, and charity, everyone would see God in each other.......God would shine through each and every person so brilliantly that it would just fill every person with even more love. Maybe that's what Heaven will be like :) 

Love has really saved my life. God has showered me with so many blessings in every beautiful form there is that at the end of the day, I'm literally speechless as I see all the love in my life before my eyes. From the amazing people God has blessed me with, to the countless opportunities He gives me on a daily basis to love others, I often get overwhelmed with true happiness at how incredible God is to me. 

God loved us so much, that He gave us His Son, His Beloved, to pay the price for our unworthiness and our sin, so that HE COULD BE WITH US FOREVER! That's some serious love!

Try to imagine this: 

The King of the Universe, the most Awesome, Powerful, Incredible, Perfect Being there Is, is so deeply and passionately in love with YOU............. that He would DIE.... the most painful death.......for YOU. He would come down to our level and become a poor man who lived with the lowest of the low. He would be hated, abandoned, despised, rejected, scorned, laughed at, spat on, ridiculed, abused, whipped, scourged, stabbed, and crucified......with the weight of the entire world and every single sin there ever was, is, and will be... He took it all on Himself.............................purely out of love for you. All for YOU.... Because He wants nothing more than to be with YOU... For eternity. Forever. Always. Per Sempre.

........Mind=Blown..........

"I would create the whole universe again, just to hear you say that you love Me."

-Jesus in a vision to St. Teresa of Avila