Blessed Joseph Gerard

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Blessed Joseph Gerard did a lot of things in Lesotho but none of that matters. Precious minerals lie under the glorious mountain tops, roots lie under a tree, and the ways to heaven lie under the deeds of great men/women. He was a man with love in his heart “We must love them, love them in spite of everything, love them always.” He would say. Since the beginning of time mankind’s is easy give love away and but remains wary to sustain her. But love, real love, has no end it has no expiration date in spite of everything love doesn’t flee the undeserving of anything it should it should find itself grown stronger by the will of the giver. God is in everything and in everyone, to love God is to love all of mankind. In today’s world we seem so easy to forget that well I guess we have always been easy to forget that God’s will is us to better serve His will is to better serve other people. I would say humanity but speaking in such on such a large scale leaves out each little detail. Each man, woman, and child is who should be loved, served, cared for, and prayed for. Little Jose in Honduras deserves as much love as Prince George in Buckingham palace. That man int he Pakistan deserves as much love as the Woman in Israel. The person sitting next to you deserves as much love as the person who cut you off this morning. I say deserve because them being alive them being willed by God ,wether they admit to it or not, is all the need to your love. Furthermore because they are the will of God because they are of God the amount of love you give them is the amount of love you allot to God. What would you give God that is not your all?

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