True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power that we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, resilience, an ability to bounce back when we thought we were completely defeated, a capacity to grow and change, a power of creative transformation…the dynamism of Love.

Love comes out of God and gathers us to God in order to pour itself back into God through all of us…we all become doors and windows through which God shines…

Thomas Merton