Lien Huong Dang

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GROWING IN THE LOVE OF GOD

By Lien Huong Dang - California

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I share this with our family in the hope that we may journey together, helping one another each day on our pilgrimage home to God, and grow ever deeper in His Love. Please pray for one another.

To contemplate the Eight Beatitudes

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is to examine my whole being — my concepts, my thoughts, my perspective, my way of life, even my reactions to people and events.

Before I entered deeply into the Eight Beatitudes, I believed some parts of myself were above average, some below. But as I went deeper

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wider, seeing more clearly both the negative and the positive, my score slowly fell away. O God! So this is who I am.
I asked myself: When Jesus came down to earth to become man, what did He bring from His Father? Riches? Power? Wisdom?
Glory? Or did He empty

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Himself of all glory and bring only love, righteousness, faithfulness, and humility — and all of this He lived from His interior life, embodied in the Eight Beatitudes He taught us.
For me, living the Eight Beatitudes is not fulfilling a charter, nor bearing a heavy law upon

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my shoulders. For me, it is an Invitation of Love — "Blessed are those who..." - through His luminous example, from His entire interior world revealed in the unique traits and noble countenance of His life.
When you love, no sin is light, no sin is small.
For the more you love,

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the more clearly you see your own sin. So whenever I grieve the heart of God or the heart of another, I feel my sin is heavy and great. For when you love, love itself gives birth to a "law of love," and I bind myself to that law.
Therefore, to become more like the image of God

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to to accept and forgive my brother and sister - is a rightful demand in my relationship with God. This is very difficult in the life of a disciple of Jesus. It will not leave us in peace, even if we pretend not to hear, not to see. It will torment and tear at our soul until we

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shatter our ego, step over our pride, trample upon our self-love, and move forward. Then we are liberated to enter into freedom in the Holy Spirit, and only then do we have the capacity to accept and forgive our brother and sister and to take responsibility for our own life.
To

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forgive is to profess our faith, and faith is the work of a child seeking. To forgive is to acknowledge that I have been forgiven by God.
When He came to earth, God shared our human condition. He entered into every circumstance of each person. He partook in each of our

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lives. That one and only Body was identified with each of us. He is present in each of our lives — "He came down as man and dwelt among us." Therefore, when we love anyone, we love Him.
When I earnestly invite God into my heart, I implicitly declare that Salvation is necessary

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- that the Incarnation is by no means superfluous, but this necessity is above every other need in my life.
O Lord! If I could live what I contemplate, then I would have blossomed, been fulfilled, and been fully formed in the plan You have not yet completed in me. Help me open my

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heart to blossom and grow in Your Love.
"When I sense God's love more clearly, I know my sin more clearly."
"Dying for God" happens only once, but living for Him is dying slowly - being martyred each day -

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until the soul leaves the body, and only then do we truly "live."
What comfort - God knows all things in every heart. He sees when we fall. He also sees when we bleed, when we are bruised, when we writhe in pain, when we struggle to rise, and He sees every scar upon our heart.

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It is He Himself who binds and heals. He waits for us at the very abyss of sin to lift us up. The Holy Eucharist, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and the power of His Word reveal this.
But the world is different. The world sees only our falling. It gives us no chance.

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In the end, what does it matter? On the road to pertection, we face God. He always walks with us to bring us to our final end - to meet the One who sent Him to carry the suitcase down to earth to become Man and to DWELL AMONG US.

Lien Huong Dang
San Diego CA

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