The Heart of Matter: Yielding
Tuesday, May 10th
“We have yet to grasp the reality that God is love, and love is dynamic; the fidelity of God’s love lies in love’s nature to change, grow, admonish, and yield. ”
—Ilia Delio, “The Emergent Christ”
“Todavía tenemos que aprehender la realidad de que Dios es amor y de que el amor es dinámico; la fidelidad del amor de Dios reside precisamente en la capacidad del amor para cambiar, crecer, exhortar y ceder..”
—Ilia Delio, “The Emergent Christ”
Incarnational Practice: Yielding
“We yield to the love of God” says Howard Thurman in Meditations of the Heart. Where and how can we yield this week? Yielding passage to a car trying to get in, yielding to a stranger waiting in line or yielding desires that cling to us. Those practical yieldings inform us of the ways we can yield our lives, joys and concerns to the love of God.
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What is being revealed? What is being moved? What is being asked?
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Yielding for love’s sake is important. So is refusing to yield for the sake of love and justice. I pray for the wisdom to know when to yield and when to stand firm.
I yield to another’s need by giving to meet the need. If I do not yield I am a useless impediment. Better to open than stay closed. As God gives of God’s self, whether asked or not, so do I. I pray to hear and see what God does and to respond as Christ.
Chinese Catholics, living in a dark night with hope yielding to God’s love are witness to “the realization that God is the principal of peace”. Simeiqi He, a Chinese Catholic Lay woman wrote,
“The recognition of the grace and loving gaze of God and the realization that God is the principal of peace give birth to the virtues of patience and forbearance. They give the Chinese Catholic Church the strength to persevere in the dark night, which is “a sign of life of growth, of development in our relationship with God, in our best human relationships, and in our societal life.” They enable it to notice the fervent and, at times, silent love that some Chinese Catholics have for God and for the Church amid its tensions, a love I deeply feel and have witnessed firsthand among friends. They urge the Chinese Church to move on in hope to a vision of reconciliation that is being realized through its good work, while its full fulfillment may very well lie past the horizon of the present time.”
Simeiqi He, “Love, Dark Night, and Peace: The Chinese Catholic Church in Dialogue with Fratelli Tutti”, Journal of Catholic Social Thought, 19:1, p 166