how to know when you’re in love

This has always been my favorite poem since first hearing it. I was working at a Jesuit university (Regis U in Denver if you must know) at the time and found it quite moving. I wasn’t religious at the time and I had found no peace in knowing God loves me. But for some reason, this poem made sense to me and reminded me that we are at ALL times “in love” with some one, some idea, some goal, some hope, some dream, some thing. And it makes us do everything we do. Being conscious of that, we only choose what we are in love with, for, as the poem says, that will decide everything. I pray that you all fall in love today…

“Nothing is more practical than Finding God,

that is, than FALLING IN LOVE

in a quite absolute, final way.

What you are in love with,

what seizes your imagination,

will affect everything.

It will decide

what will get you out of bed in the morning,

what you do with your evenings,

how you spend your weekends,

what you read, who you know,

what breaks your heart,

and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.

Fall in love, stay in love,

and it will decide everything.”

-attributed to Father Pedro Arrupe, Society of Jesus