To take pleasure in the living...

From midafternoon prayer for this day:

Death was not God’s doing, he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living.

-- Book of Wisdom 1:13

All life is a miracle, and God takes pleasure in all life. When He had finished creating the heavens and the earth, all the animals and plants, and above all this man and woman in His own image and likeness, He pronounced it GOOD. The early Christian mediated on this, and write that we are the only creatures that he takes delight in. His love for us is very strong, and the disciple who Jesus loved tells us the simple, yet profound truth: God is Love. So we too have been created to love, and to take pleasure in the living. Paul tells us that we are to come to be like Him, and this is through loving. The "secret" of the saints is that they more we love, the more we resemble God.

Let us pray that all people, especially our leaders can grow in their capacity to love. To love and take pleasure in all the living.

God bless.