As I gaze upon the glorious Cross and come into contact with Love, my search for truth, love, and happiness is found. I see my life as the triumph of God’s Cross. As I die with my Lord and Savior, my life, insignificant as it is, becomes the triumph of the Cross, the triumph of love. The triumph of my Lord’s Cross is fulfilled in me, His Body and Bride. In this intimate union of love, I participate in my Lord’s sorrows and tears as I suffer with Jesus the horrible reality of my own sin and the sin of humanity. This union of sorrows heals me of my self-love and selfishness, as it draws me to know Love. My femininity finds its identity in my Mother of Sorrows, for pure love moves us to bear all for the Other and with the Other.

The union with my Love Crucified stretches me as Jesus’ Body was stretched on the Cross. The tent of my heart is stretched and expanded as God calls me to love beyond my human capacity or desire. In the ordinary of my daily life, Abba teaches me to love, as Jesus’ crucified love stretches me more and more. I feel the spiritual and physical reality of my life and body being blessed, broken continuously a little more and more, and given so that others may feed and be nourished from the Bread of Life that lives in me.

In this docility of heart, we voluntarily allow God to stretch us in Jesus crucified that we become transformed in Love so that it is no longer we that live, but Jesus crucified Who lives in us!