In the closing meditation
of his Spiritual Exercises, Saint Ignatius Loyola
asks the retreatant to ponder, cuánto
el Señor desea dárseme - how much the Lord wants to give himself to me. Certainly,
this arises out of Ignatius' own experience of Christ's love for him. In
Ignatius' expression, we hear an echo of Saint Augustine's words centuries
earlier, "God thirsts to be thirsted after."
Given the endless loving desire of our God and Lord for us, our only work minute by minute, all day long is to allow the Lord easy access to our hearts. He only asks us to crack the door open. If we give him even just a little space, he will enter and love and transform our hearts, our very selves.
How much the Lord desires to give himself to each of us. Relentlessly. If only we understood.
