Love is a conscious decision by another person, endurance even if my heart is not really in it .

It is in vain for me to love the street children from the stillness of my room ! They don’t need to look into my tearful, gentle eyes but what they need that there maybe bread on the table, a roof over their head, food on their plate , a pencil in their hand , a blanket on their bed , so that they get a kind word, a caress.

To do good kindheartedly is very difficult especially for someone who drives me up the wall , who crosses me continuously , who is hostile. It is difficult to do it for them but for Jesus -who loves him as well , who says "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”- already we are capable of doing good straight from the heart.

This is why we are not calculating, insincere , when we do good even, if our heart, our fallible human nature would take us in a different direction. 

Father Csaba

translated by dr k.e.