Living Faith and Freedom to Live the Faith
Those who know this divine love yearn for the freedom to share that love with the whole world. They are compelled to be concerned about the things that concern His Heart. God really is concerned about humanity, about our lives together, about the most vulnerable and about the truth. So God’s friends, those who have dedicated themselves to living faith, they want to make their voices heard and work for a society that is ordered to the truth – the truth about who God is, who we are before Him, and the truth about how we are to live together in love. This means being able to protect and promote all that is good, holy, tender, authentic and noble about sacred and frail humanity.
In the United States today this freedom is gravely threatened by those who do not understand God’s love and who view living faith as an impediment to progress. Such ignorance and misunderstanding is not fundamentally political or cultural problem, it is spiritual, a problem in the heart. Only prayer and real dialogue – dialogue radically rooted in the truth – can change hearts. Only the truth can set us free.
God delights in all that is genuinely human. He delights in just laws and fairness. He is always at work in the hearts of those with good will and in the events of life to help us enjoy what He enjoys. He loves us this much. Thus, as we work against unjust laws, not only here in America, but all over the world where ever people are not free to live by living faith, we must proceed confident in his love and providence. Here, more than anything else, prayer opens up the space for Him to bless our solidarity with one another. With divine blessing, we discover the freedom to delight in what God delights in when He gaze on us and the courage to do what needs to be done so that those we love might have this freedom too.
"Protect and promote all this is good, holy, tender,authentic and noble about sacred and frail humanity." We must pray very hard for this.