It is probably that you have lived the experience of remaining at the feet of someone, perhaps, through being in love. And you tried all, but the person does not want anything to do with you. Therefore, when the human being loves. at times blindly, he procures, of all forms to conquer the loved person. And he tries once to visit the person, sends a note and sends a chat. Patience . . . She does not want anything to dow you, but you still try and flirt.

When a person walks at the side of a road, you seek to go to encounter and arrive much closer, feeling that the heart is beating in the throat, that the stomach falls below your knees and your legs weaken, you get hot and cold and when your are near the person, you remain gaged and cannot speak. Say He and By and the person leaves.

I do not know if you already lived this, but God has lived this from the day you were born. He has firted, scandalously, drew close to you, “You are here my child! Look to me, beloved! I am here in the Eucharist, in the sacrament of Reconciliation! Look to me!” And you move to the road, pretending not to hear, saying “No, it is not my hour.” In truth we become snobs and make ourselves difficult. It is crazy to snub the one who loves us. And when this one is God, then a story is happening.

Whoever loves, always seeks to be at the side of the beloved and never leaves the side of him or her. You are seeking something that fills you life, but until today it is given false names. They call it sex, or the new car, the house, lots of pocket money. . . and in this seeking you have deceived yourself. Your search is for Jesus Christ. Perhaps deaf and blind to the point of not seeing, nor hearing, you are seeking nothing more, nothing less than the Author of your life. He knows all about you.

All that you feel today, God feels as well. From the acts most sad to the most happy from the most simple to the most complex, The loss of the beloved creates pain in you, pain in God.

When you are in a store and see the beautiful tennis shoes for $265 and feel the enormous desire to have them, but you  can only buy the tennis shoes for $12. This appears to be foolishness to many people, but if this hurts you, it hurts God. Nothing escapes the eyes of the Lord, Nothing!

From the book “Joven, O Caminho Se Faz Caminhando”-Editora Canção Nova.

Dunga.

Translated from Portuguese