Too Many Broken Hearts in the World

Father,

The world is a sad place most of the time. Everywhere I see people with deadened eyes. Despair, desolation, and depression are common. Why is this so, My Father? The world you made ought to be filled with happy, hopeful and vibrantly-living people.

I search my heart and find in my communion with You, a voice saying, that the lack of love is the answer. Without love, the artifice comes in. Without love, though people "speak in the tongues of men and of angels," they are but "a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."

Without love, we find it hard to understand the command: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." And worse, we fail to comprehend the first and greatest of Your commandments: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind."

No wonder then that despite all the material and tangible things that we can accumulate in this world, we still feel empty and prone to despair. We search for something to complete us, ever struggling onwards to learn more, gain more, be more. And yet we often fail to realize that that which we seek with all our might is just within our reach -- Your Love.

Let us understand more deeply the meaning of love, most especially Your Love. Let us long for it with all hearts and souls. I strongly believe, Father, that with your precious Love, there is nothing more that we need in this world.

Amen.