Before you pass
over this message, I invite you to take a second to just stop. Catch your
breath. Let you mind rest for a second.
“God is love and love is God.” 1 John 4:8.
In order for me
to find God in all things, I remember that I must find LOVE in all things. When
I think about love, I am brought back to Pedro Arrupe, SJ’s poem that begins,
“Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a
quite absolute and final way.” I believe that college is the time to discover
what we are in love with from causes like Relay for Life or being more “green”
to being in love with subjects like Western Civilization or Marketing to being
in love with others through service or in community. However, Rockhurst is not
just about learning what we are in love with but how to let that love shape our
lives. As Arrupe says, “It will decide what will get you up in the morning…how
you spend your weekends…what amazes you with joy and gratitude.” Who
doesn’t want a life filled with love, a love that Arrupe says will even “decide
what breaks your heart”? One thing that most breaks my heart is knowing
that there are people on campus who doubt that they are loved or have trouble
recognizing that love. In being called to act as women and men for and with
others, not only do we, as a Rockhurst community, have the responsibility
to find His love in all things, but more importantly, we need to be committed
to share that love. I am so blessed to call myself a Rockhurst student striving
to live a life that beats for others in good times and in challenging
times. I pray that we always remember, “fall in love, stay in love, and
it will decide everything.“ By doing this, we will have found God in
everything.
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Reflection
by Colleen Smyth
Colleen Smyth is a
sophomore from St. Louis, MO. She hopes major in an area of business and minor
in Non-Profit Studies (maybe Theology too, if she can fit it in). Colleen is
the service chair of VOICES for Justice, an active member in both Alpha Sigma
Alpha and CLC, and also serves as an Ambassador.
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