Reflecting on the humble heart of God, Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio writes:
The experience of love tells us that love can never be isolated or individual, love needs to be shared. The nature of God is to share love and that is why the word "God" cannot be abstract, devoid of meaning or individualized because the word "God" means relationship, a communion of persons-in-love. God is Trinity.
We are not little creatures who live down below in the valley of the earth. We are created lovers of God and even though we are finite and incomplete in our loving relationship with God, we are caught up in the eternal love of the Father and Son.
If there is a category that gives expression to the highest meaning of human existence, it is
created lovers of God. To know the infinite meaning that this category contains is to live ever as lovers of God and lovers of each other. Being a lover of God and all that that entails is an identity that we must strive to keep in each and every circumstance of this life, in good times and in bad, in joyous occasions and in dreadful cataclysms. I hope and pray that all people may come to know and to love the God who is Love. I hope and pray that I may come to share in the divine love life of my Creator and give witness to that love in our shattered world.
