The best thing you can never earn.

YOU CAN’T EARN LOVE!!!!!! Love is a gift. It’s freely given, or it’s not love. Full stop. No one in your life who truly loves you does so because of something you do. Or know. Or think. Or feel. Or anything. Love is free. Most especially, God’s love is free. We don’t have to do a single stinking thing for it.

“But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8

As a high achiever, I struggle with this. I’m big on responsibility and earning. I try (again and again and again) to earn God’s love. I slip into that frame of reference probably just about daily, if I’m being honest. It has yet to be true, or good, or helpful. I know this is a common struggle for men, and we must humble ourselves and turn to the Blessed Mother as our model of perfect receptivity. God is love, and we have merely to receive it.