Humble love is perhaps the greatest of all evangelical virtues, much more rare than the frequent use of the word ‘love’ in contemporary literature would lead us to suspect. Love in the image of God – generous, patient, gentle love toward everyone, toward those nearest and those most distant, toward friend and enemy, toward just anyone who shows up. A Cistercian Abbott who lived in the 12th century, the blessed Guerric of Igny, said it this way: ‘It is the property of friendship to make itself small before its friends’.
ANDRÉ LOUF Tuning Into Grace
