“Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.” -St. John of the Cross

Lord, there are so many times where I expect love to be an emotion.  However, this thought is a misconception of what love is.  In our society, the word “love” is tossed around without any consent of its true definition.  How many times do people express their feeling with the word love.  For example, “I love ice cream.”  True love is Christ and in order to be part of His love, one must deny himself in this world.  One must suffer and detach himself from people and objects.  One must except tribulations with an open heart like Christ did while suffering on the cross.  My dear Jesus, help me to detach myself from people and to accept things without losing my inner peace.  Help me to realize that things happen for a reason and that I should not try to convince people to be part of my life if they clearly do not intend to do so.  How hard it is to be detached but it helps me to somewhat realize how you felt on the Cross.  It helps me to contemplate how You were deatched from the world and were help on the cross by nothing more than three nails.  Help me to be like You in all that I do.  Help me to be a saint but first help me to be a man.  I want to love like You and always be in Your grace.  

“Detachment. How hard it is! Oh, to be fastened by nothing but three nails and to have no more feeling in my flesh than the Cross.” -St. Josemaria Escriva